Kansas History

How did Lewis and Clark describe Kansas?

• It was beautiful and full of game.

• It was like a desert, sandy and dry, like Africa.

• Called Kansas "The Great Desert" and said it was unfit for cultivation

• Said it was to cold to live their.

The description of KS as "the Great Desert" led Americans to think that Kansas would be:

• difficult place for Americans to settle but a good place to relocate Indian tribes.

• great place to vacation.

• good land for a buffalo reserve.

• land that could be sold back to the Europeans.

The U.S. government's policy of relocation was hard on the Indians forced to move to KS because:

• there were many Americans that were against it.

• many of them had already adopted the customs of Americans.

• living conditions in KS were unfamiliar and this made their traditional way of life difficult.

• so many Americans had already moved here that there was little room. 

This explorer was the first to create an atlas of maps of U.S. states and territories and named Kansas "the Great Desert".

• Lewis and Clark

• Stephen H. Long

•  Zebulon Pike

What happened as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• the population of Kansas increased rapidly, and violence broke out between those FOR and AGAINST slavery [known as "Bleeding Kansas"]

• the legislative branch of government was separated into two parts: a Senate and a House of Representatives

• all trade between the U.S. and foreign nations was stopped [to protect our ships and our sailors] and the U.S. economy was nearly destroyed

• the U.S. doubled in size, and a huge amount of land became available for people to move into

What happened as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• the population of Kansas increased rapidly, and violence broke out between those FOR and AGAINST slavery [known as "Bleeding Kansas"]

• the legislative branch of government was separated into two parts: a Senate and a House of Representatives

• all trade between the U.S. and foreign nations was stopped [to protect our ships and our sailors] and the U.S. economy was nearly destroyed

• the U.S. doubled in size, and a huge amount of land became available for people to move into

In what year did the Bleeding Kansas conflict begin?

• 1854

• 1856

• 1858

• 1860

Member of the Delaware tribe who operated a ferry boat on the KS River

• Long

• Grinter

• Becknell

Explorers that came to Kansas to establish trade relations with the Indians

• French

• Spanish

• Germans

• Russians

Who was the first American explorer to travel over land in Kansas who became lost in the territory claimed by Spain?

• Zebulone Pike

• Stephen Long

• Lewis and Clark

• William Becknell