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If you had ancestors in Kansas more than 130 years ago, there's a good chance they came to claim the free land offered to settlers by the Homestead Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1862. During the settlement period, some immigrants preferred to settle in communities with people who shared the same culture and language.
- Great American Desert
Kansas History, Government and Social Studies Standards:...
- Homestead Act
The Homestead Act was one way settlers acquired land in...
- Indian Removal Act
The plan also did not account for the fact that other tribes...
- French Settlers - Kansapedia
French Settlers in Kansas. More than 100 years after...
- Jewish Farming Communities
The Beersheba settlers built sod houses, a sod synagogue,...
- Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas. Some of the early settlers in Kansas...
- Settlement of The Krimmer Mennonite Brethren at Gnadenau
Gnadenau, in its early years, was enough of a novelty on the...
- Men
Men - Settlement in Kansas - Kansapedia - Kansas Historical...
- Great American Desert
September 26, 1806 – The first American flag is raised in Kansas by a Pawnee Indian Chief. 1811 – George C. Sibley, a government trader, works among Osage Indians. 1812 – The Missouri Fur Company dissolved and was succeeded by the American Fur Company, which concentrated in Kansas. Major Stephen H. Long.
Early Kansas Settlement – Fact Sheet Humans have lived in the Flint Hills of Kansas since at least 8,000 BC For most of the Archaic period, people did not transform their natural environment in any fundamental way. Some archaic groups transferred from food gatherers to food producers around 3,000 years ago.
The U.S. state of Kansas, located on the eastern edge of the Great Plains, was the home of nomadic Native American tribes who hunted the vast herds of bison (often called "buffalo"). In around 1450 AD, the Wichita People founded the great city of Etzanoa. The city of Etzanoa was abandoned in around 1700 AD.
Descendants are encouraged to supply information about ancestors in Kansas prior to 1900 for inclusion in the Council’s ongoing publication The Forgotten Settlers of Kansas—cited fully in the Bibliography —available in the Research Room of the Kansas State Historical Society. Requested information includes the name, birth and death dates ...
Kansas, situated on the American Great Plains, became the 34th state on January 29, 1861. Its path to statehood was long and bloody: After the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 opened the two territories to settlement and allowed the new settlers to determine whether the states would be admitted to the union as "free" or "slave," North and South competed to send the most settlers into the region.
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When the area was opened to Euro-American settlement in the 1850s, Kansas became the first battlefield in the conflict in the American Civil War. After the war, Kansas was home to Wild West towns servicing the cattle trade. With the railroads came heavy immigration from the East, from Europe, and from Freedmen called "Exodusters".
