Outline of Kansas

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the U.S. state of Kansas:

Kansas – U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States.{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/geo/www/us_regdiv.pdf |title=Census.gov |access-date=2010-07-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20130107113900/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/us_regdiv.pdf |archive-date=2013-01-07 }} It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area.John Koontz, p.c. The tribe's name (natively kką:ze) is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south wind," although this was probably not the term's original meaning.Rankin, Robert. 2005. "Quapaw." In Native Languages of the Southeastern United States, eds. Heather K. Hardy and Janine Scancarelli. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, pg. 492Connelley, William E. 1918. [http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1918ks/v1/ch10p1.html Indians] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070211043240/http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1918ks/v1/ch10p1.html |date=2007-02-11 }}. A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, ch. 10, vol. 1

General reference

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Names
Common name: Kansas
Pronunciation: {{IPAc-en|audio=en-us-Kansas.ogg|ˈ|k|æ|n|z|ə|s}}
Official name: State of Kansas
Abbreviations and name codes
Postal symbol: KS
ISO 3166-2 code: US-KS
Internet second-level domain: .ks.us
Nicknames
America's Bread Basket
Sunflower State
Wheat State (previously used on license plates)
Adjectival: Kansas
Demonym: Kansan

Geography of Kansas

Kansas is: a U.S. state, a federal state of the United States of America
Location
Northern hemisphere
Western hemisphere
Americas
North America
Anglo America
Northern America
United States of America
Contiguous United States
Central United States
West North Central States
Midwestern United States
Great Plains
Population of Kansas: 2,853,118 (2010 U.S. Census{{cite web

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= Places in Kansas =

= Environment of Kansas =

== Natural geographic features of Kansas ==

= Regions of Kansas =

== Administrative divisions of Kansas ==

= Demography of Kansas =

Demographics of Kansas

Government and politics of Kansas

= Branches of the government of Kansas =

Government of Kansas

== Executive branch of the government of Kansas ==

== Legislative branch of the government of Kansas ==

== Judicial branch of the government of Kansas ==

Courts of Kansas

Supreme Court of Kansas

= Law and order in Kansas =

Law of Kansas

== Laws by type ==

= Military in Kansas =

History of Kansas

History of Kansas

= History of Kansas, by period =

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Prehistory of Kansas
French colony of Louisiane, 1699–1764
Treaty of Fontainebleau of 1762
Spanish (though predominantly Francophone) district of Alta Luisiana, 1764–1803
Third Treaty of San Ildefonso of 1800
French district of Haute-Louisiane, 1803
Louisiana Purchase of 1803
Unorganized U.S. territory created by the Louisiana Purchase, 1803–1804
Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804–1806
District of Louisiana, 1804–1805
Territory of Louisiana, 1805–1812
Pike Expedition, 1806–1807
Territory of Missouri, 1812–1821
War of 1812, June 18, 1812 – March 23, 1815
Treaty of Ghent, December 24, 1814
Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819
Unorganized Territory, 1821–1854
Santa Fe Trail, 1821–1880
Mexican–American War, April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, February 2, 1848
Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1851
Territory of Kansas, 1854–1861
Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854
History of slavery in Kansas
Bleeding Kansas, 1854–1859
Pike's Peak Gold Rush, 1858–1861
Territory of Jefferson (extralegal), 1859–1861
Pony Express, 1860–1861
State of Kansas becomes 34th State admitted to the United States of America on January 29, 1861
American Civil War, April 12, 1861 – May 13, 1865
Kansas in the American Civil War
Price's Raid, September 27 – December 2, 1864
Comanche Campaign, 1868–1874
Spanish–American War, April 25 – August 12, 1898
Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes 34th President of the United States on January 20, 1953
United States Supreme Court hands down decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka on May 17, 1954

= History of Kansas, by region =

By city
History of Kansas City

= History of Kansas, by subject =

History of education in Kansas
History of slavery in Kansas
History of sports in Kansas
History of the Kansas City Royals (a professional sports team located in Missouri but often affiliated with Kansas)
Timeline of college football in Kansas

Culture of Kansas

Museums in Kansas
Religion in Kansas
Episcopal Diocese of Kansas
Scouting in Kansas
State symbols of Kansas
Flag of the State of Kansas {{flagicon|Kansas}}
Great Seal of the State of Kansas 18px

= The Arts in Kansas =

Music of Kansas

= Sports in Kansas =

Sports in Kansas

Economy and infrastructure of Kansas

Economy of Kansas

Education in Kansas

References

External links

[http://www.kansasmemory.org/ Access documents, photographs, and other primary sources on Kansas Memory, the Kansas State Historical Society's digital portal]

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