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Kansas Assessment Terms: People and KS History

Kansas Assessment Terms: People and KS History. Day 1. Benjamin “Pap” Singleton: The leader of the Exodusters Thomas Jefferson: The 3 rd President of the U.S. and writer of the Declaration of Independence Alexander Hamilton: 1 st secretary of the Treasury, one of the founding fathers

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Kansas Assessment Terms: People and KS History

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  1. Kansas Assessment Terms: People and KS History

  2. Day 1 • Benjamin “Pap” Singleton: The leader of the Exodusters • Thomas Jefferson: The 3rd President of the U.S. and writer of the Declaration of Independence • Alexander Hamilton: 1st secretary of the Treasury, one of the founding fathers • Fred Harvey: Owner of the Harvey House Restaurants • Frederick Douglass: escaped slave who became powerful abolitionist speaker

  3. Day 2 • Emigrant: one who leaves a country to settle elsewhere • Immigrants: one who arrives in a country to settle • Popular sovereignty: the right to vote on an issue in a territory • Bleeding KS: period of violence in Kansas in which pro and anti slave factions battles • Border ruffians: Missourians who burned Lawrence, KS prior to the civil war

  4. Day 3 • William Clark Quantrill: Bushwhacker leader who burned Lawrence during the Civil War • Preemption: The right to purchase something before others • Farmers' Alliance: various regional political organizations established by farmers in the 1880’s • Populism: A political philosophy supporting the rights and power of the common people • Progressives: A person who actively favors or strives for progress toward better conditions

  5. Day 4 • William Allen White: Progressive journalist from Emporia, KS – active in Civil Rights • Great Depression: the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s  • farming crisis: • MO River Basin Project: 1944 – project damming the Missouri River for water utilization, flood control, hydroelectricity, etc.

  6. Day 5 • Shelter belts: Farming practice in which lines of trees are planted around a farm to block wind and prevent erosion • Irrigation: artificial watering of farmland • Terracing: a raised bank of earth with vertical sides

  7. Analysis Day

  8. People • Pap Singleton • emigrants • immigrants • Fred Harvey • Fred. Douglass • Thomas Jefferson • Alex. Hamilton • Kansas • Ind. removal Act • pop. sovereignty • Bleeding KS • border ruffians • Quantrill • Homestead Act • preemption • Reconstruction • Farmers' Alliance • Populism • Progressives • Wm. Allen White • Great Depression • farming crisis • MO River Basin Project • crop rotation • shelter belts • irrigation • terracing

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