Instructions
Please prepare a 10-12 slide power point that covers Kansas history from 1845 to the present and answers these questions:
How did the residents of Kansas go from being liberal antislavery proponents, to labor and women’s rights proponents, to populists, than to the huge swing to conservative Republicans? Be sure to give examples from each time period we have discussed. Be sure to talk about and show the progression.
Include all of these key events and people:
Kansas Nebraska Act 1854
New England Immigrant Aid Society
Constitutions, Territorial Capitals and succession of governorsB
Bleeding Kansas and John Brown
Civil War
1861 Kansas Enters the Union as Free State
Homestead Act
Exodusters
Indian Problems such as the Osage Imbroglio
Railroad expansion and its affect
Cowboys and Cattle Trails
Panic of 1874
Theodore Roosevelt and trustbusting
Farmers Alliance 1890
Women’s Rights Movement
Populist Party
Carrie Nation and the Temperance Movement
Women’s Rights Movement
WWI
Depression
Dust Bowl
New Deal Reforms
WWII
Eisenhower
Bob Dole
Joan Finney
Nancy Landon Kassebaum
Kathleen Sebelius
Sam Brownback
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