Kansas Custom License Plates and Frames

Kansas is a U.S. state
located in the Midwestern United States. 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. 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. Residents of Kansas are called "Kansans."
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 the 1830s, but the pace of
settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery issue. When officially
opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854, abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery
settlers from neighboring Missouri rushed to the territory to determine if 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 eventually 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. Today, Kansas is
one of the most productive agricultural states, producing high yields of wheat, sorghum and sunflowers. Kansas
is the 15th most extensive and the 33rd most populous of the 50 United States.


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