The Good Times And The Bad TImes

  • World War II

    The Japanese had airplanes and dropped bombs on Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii and killed 2400 Americans died.
  • World War I

    World War I

    Taxes increased and almost 80000 men joined the armed forces and didn’t know if they would come back.
  • Win The War With Wheat

    Win The War With Wheat

    We sold wheat mainly to Belgium because they needed food because they were in the war.
  • Federal Land Bank

    Federal Land Bank

    This provided long-term loans to farmers and ranchers to increase their land holdings.
  • Flu Epidemic

    Flu Epidemic

    Kansas may have started the world’s worst ever flu epidemic, 1\5 of the world’s population was sick with this virus.
  • Ku Klux Klan

    Ku Klux Klan

    The Kansas government opposed the Klan. Kansas was the first state in the union to outlaw the Klan.
  • Ku Klux Klan

    Ku Klux Klan

    They killed or kidnapped people that were African Americans, immigrants, Roman Catholic, or Jewish.
  • Great Depression

    Great Depression

    The stock market prices plummeted and everyone was broke. People moved and were starving.
  • Fast Food

    Fast Food

    Americans got rich from fast food stores they opened
  • Baseball

    Baseball

    The Kansas City Monarchs were one of the most successful teams in the Negro League.
  • Dust Bowl

    Dust Bowl

    They over plowed the ground and there was drought. There were dust storms that killed many people.