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World War II
The Japanese had airplanes and dropped bombs on Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii and killed 2400 Americans died. -
World War I
Taxes increased and almost 80000 men joined the armed forces and didn’t know if they would come back. -
Win The War With Wheat
We sold wheat mainly to Belgium because they needed food because they were in the war. -
Federal Land Bank
This provided long-term loans to farmers and ranchers to increase their land holdings. -
Flu Epidemic
Kansas may have started the world’s worst ever flu epidemic, 1\5 of the world’s population was sick with this virus. -
Ku Klux Klan
The Kansas government opposed the Klan. Kansas was the first state in the union to outlaw the Klan. -
Ku Klux Klan
They killed or kidnapped people that were African Americans, immigrants, Roman Catholic, or Jewish. -
Great Depression
The stock market prices plummeted and everyone was broke. People moved and were starving. -
Fast Food
Americans got rich from fast food stores they opened -
Baseball
The Kansas City Monarchs were one of the most successful teams in the Negro League. -
Dust Bowl
They over plowed the ground and there was drought. There were dust storms that killed many people.
