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Moments that shaped Kansas

1850s
Bleeding Kansas
1850s

Bleeding Kansas

Through the mid-1850s, pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers flooded into Kansas and fough...

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1854
Kansas-Nebraska Act
1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 organized the Kansas and Nebraska territories while allowi...

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1861
Kansas Statehood
1861

Kansas Statehood

Kansas entered the Union as a free state on January 29, 1861, just weeks before the start...

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1863
Quantrill's Raid
1863

Quantrill's Raid

On August 21, 1863, Confederate guerrilla leader William Quantrill led a raid on Lawrence,...

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1870s
Cattle Drive Era
1870s

Cattle Drive Era

Following the Civil War, Kansas became the northern terminus of major cattle drives from T...

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1880s
Wheat Farming Growth
1880s

Wheat Farming Growth

Kansas emerged as the wheat capital of the United States during the latter nineteenth cent...

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1930s
Dust Bowl
1930s

Dust Bowl

Kansas was among the states hardest hit by the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, when years of droug...

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1954
Brown v. Board of Education
1954

Brown v. Board of Education

The landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education originated from a ca...

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1960s
Aviation Manufacturing
1960s

Aviation Manufacturing

Wichita became one of the most important centers of aircraft manufacturing in the United S...

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Modern Era
Agriculture and Aviation
Modern Era

Agriculture and Aviation

Today, Kansas remains a global leader in aircraft manufacturing and a powerhouse in Americ...

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