Kansas is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name (natively "") is often said to mean "people of the (south) wind" although this was probably not the term's original meaning. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison. 

Kansas was first settled by European Americans in 1812, in what is now Bonner Springs, but the pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery issue. When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854 with the Kansas–Nebraska Act, abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri rushed to the territory to determine whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. Thus, the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos in its early days as these forces collided, and was known as Bleeding Kansas. The abolitionists prevailed, and on January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state. After the Civil War, the population of Kansas grew rapidly when waves of immigrants turned the prairie into farmland. QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What kind of territory is Kansas?
2. What is Kansas classified as?
3. What sort of place is Kansas?
Q2:
1. Where is Kansas?
2. What is the location of Kansas?
3. Where can Kansas be found?
Q3:
1. Is Kansas in the South?
2. Is Kansas located in the Southern US?
3. Is Kansas in the Southern part of the United States?
Q4:
1. Where in the US is Kansas located?
2. What part of the US is Kansas located in?
3. What region of the United States is Kansas in?
Q5:
1. Where does the name Kansas come from?
2. Where does Kansas get its name from?
3. What is the source of the name Kansas?
Q6:
1. When did the first non-native American settlement arrive in Kansas?
2. When did the first non-native Americans settle in Kansas?
3. When was Kansas first settled by people who were not native Americans?
Q7:
1. What took place in Kansas in 1812?
2. What occurred in 1812?
3. What was an important event in Kansas in 1812?
Q8:
1. Where did European American settle in Kansas in 1812?
2. In what part of Kansas did European Americans first settle?
3. What was the site of the 1812 settlement of European Americans in Kansas?
Q9:
1. How was Kansas referred to during the settlement time?
2. During the time of settlements, what was Kansas called?
3. What was the name for Kansas at the time of settlements?
Q10:
1. What was the origin of the name Bleeding Kansas?
2. Where did the term Bleeding Kansas come from?
3. Why was the territory once referred to as Bleeding Kansas?
Q11:
1. Who was historically in conflict in Kansas?
2. Who did historic Kansas have serious conflicts between?
3. Who fought against whom in Bleeding Kansas?
Q12:
1. Who won the battle between abolitionists and pro-slavery settlers?
2. Who was victorious in the battle between abolitionists and pro-slavery settlers?
3. Were the pro-slavery settlers or the abolitionists the ultimate victors?
Q13:
1. On what date did Kansas become a state?
2. When was Kansas granted statehood?
3. What was the day when Kansas became a state?
Q14:
1. Did all tribes in Kansas live in the same way?
2. Did all of Kansas's tribes share the same lifestyle?
3. Was there a common way of life between all of the tribes in Kansas?
Q15:
1. How were the tribes in Kansas divided?
2. What was the line of division of the tribes of Kansas?
3. How were the tribes in Kansas distinguished from one another?
Q16:
1. How did tribes in Eastern Kansas live?
2. What was the way of life of tribes in Eastern Kansas?
3. What were the living conditions of those living in Eastern tribes?
Q17:
1. How did tribes in Western Kansas live?
2. What was the way of life of tribes in Western Kansas?
3. What were the living conditions of those living in Western tribes?
Q18:
1. Did tribes in the West hunt anything?
2. Were the Western tribes hunters?
3. Did the tribes of the West hunt for their food?
Q19:
1. What was hunted by the Western tribes?
2. What did tribes in the West hunt?
3. What animal did Western Kansas tribes hunt?
Q20:
1. What did the Kansas Nebraska Act do?
2. What was the purpose of the Kansas Nebraska Act?
3. What was the outcome of the Kansas Nebraska Act?
