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 KansasNebraska 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 are the answers to this following set of questions:

1. What is Kansas?
2. Where?
3. Is it in the South?
4. Where then?
5. Where did the name come from?
6. When was it first settled by anyone other than Native Americans?
7. What happened in 1812?
8. In what city?
9. What was it known as during the settlement time?
10. Why?
11. Who was fighting?
12. Who won?
13. When did they become a state?
14. Did all of the tribes live the same way?
15. How were they divided?
16. How did the Eastern part live?
17. And the west?
18. Did they hunt anything?
19. What?
20. What was the KansaNebraska Act?
1. a state
2. in the United States
3. no
4. in the Midwest
5. the Kansa
6. no
7. it was settled by European Americans
8. Bonner Springs
9. Bleeding Kansas
10. the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos
11. abolitionist Free-Staters and pro-slavery settlers
12. The abolitionists
13. January 29, 1861
14. no
15. into eastern and western parts of the state
16. in villages along the river valleys.
17. they were semi-nomadic
18. yes
19. bison.
20. it opened to Kansas to settlement