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Test Your Knowledge of the State of Kansas
1. Kansas became the 34th state when it entered the Union on January 29 of what year?
2. In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed its residents to exercise popular sovereignty-the right to self-govern- to decide whether or not it would enter the union as a free state or a slave state, overturning what important political settlement?
3. What is the term given to the violence that swept the Kansas Territory for four years after the decision to void the Missouri Compromise?
4. One of the most well-known perpetrators of this violence was which abolitionist?
5. What is sobriquet that applies to all Kansans, and especially University of Kansas fans, that came into use during the tumultuous 1850s?
6. Located right in the middle of the Great Plains, Kansas is the world's largest producer of what good?
7. Which U.S. president hailed from Abilene, Kansas?
8. From a sea of wheat, to a solo flight across the Atlantic, which famous aviator was born in Kansas?
9. Discovered in the sun's atmosphere before terrestrial supplies were discovered first in Kansas, what is the second most abundant element in the universe?
10. Before the OK Corral, where in Kansas did Wyatt Earp meet Doc Holliday?


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Kansas became the 34th state when it entered the Union on January 29 of what year?
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