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Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology.
QUESTIONS
1. How long has it been since Columbus discovered America?
2. Compare the population at that time with the present population of the United States.
3. In what part of the United States is Kansas?
4. Describe briefly the western part of the Mississippi valley. Describe the surface of Kansas.
5. What relation has Spain to the history of Kansas? Why did Spain claim the first right to America? Name some of the early discoveries of the Spaniards.
6. Where was New Spain?
7. What influenced the Spaniards in their ventures in the New World?
8. Who was Cabeza de Vaca? Of what importance is the account of his adventures?
9. Tell the story of Coronado. What is his relation to Kansas history?
CHAPTER II
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KANSAS BECOMES A PART OF THE UNITED STATES
The French.
La Salle and Louisiana, 1682.
The End of Spanish and French Explorations.
The English.
Conflict of French and English Claims.
The Louisiana Purchase, 1803.
One Century More.