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.
What is Kansas?
Where?
Is it in the South?
Where then?
Where did the name come from?
When was it first settled by anyone other than Native Americans?
What happened in 1812?
In what city?
What was it known as during the settlement time?
Why?
Who was fighting?
Who won?
When did they become a state?
Did all of the tribes live the same way?
How were they divided?
How did the Eastern part live?
And the west?
Did they hunt anything?
What?
What was the KansaNebraska Act?
a state
Kansas is a U.S. state 
in the United States
Kansas is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States
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Kansas is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States
in the Midwest
in the Midwestern United States.
the Kansa
 Kansas is named after the Kansa Native American trib
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 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
it was settled by European Americans
was first settled by European Americans in 1812,
Bonner Springs
s first settled by European Americans in 1812, in what is now Bonner Springs
Bleeding Kansas
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 area was a hotbed of violence and chaos
Thus, the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos
abolitionist Free-Staters and pro-slavery settlers
abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri
The abolitionists
The abolitionists prevailed,
January 29, 1861
January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union
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 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. 
into eastern and western parts of the state
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. 
in villages along the river valleys.
ribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys.
they were semi-nomadic
Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadi
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hunted large herds of bison. 
bison.
 hunted large herds of bison.
it opened to Kansas to settlement
When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854 with the Kansas–Nebraska Act