- Alternate Nicknames:
- Jayhawk State
- Breadbasket of America
- Capital: Topeka
- Major Cities:
- Wichita
- Kansas City
- Dodge City
- Major Geographical Features
- Flint Hills
- Red Hills
- Smokey Hills
- Arkansas River
- Kansas River
- Missouri River
- Saline River
- National Parks: none
- 1803: Present-day Kansas is acquired through the Louisiana Purchase
- 1854: Kansas-Nebraska Act allows Kansans to choose to legalize slavery in the territory
- 1854-1861: "Bleeding Kansas" so-called because of violent clashes between abolitionists and slavery advocates
- 1861: Kansas becomes the 34th state
- 1930s: Dust Bowl causes a major drought in Kansas and other Great Plains states
- Motto: "To the stars through difficulties"
- Name Meaning: "People of the South Wind" in Sioux
- Industries
- Cattle
- Wheat
- Aircraft
- Natural Gas
- Lebanon, Kansas is the geographic center of the 48 contiguous states
- Argonia, Kansas was the first city to elect a female mayor
- 1st state to include the prohibition of alcohol in its constitution
- Holcomb, Kansas was the main setting for Truman Capote's In Cold Blood
- Famous People
- Amelia Earhart
- Walter Percy Chrysler
- Barry Sanders
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