Bill O'Reilly: O'Reilly's History Quiz - Kansas Enters the Union

1. Kansas entered the Union on January 29, 1861, making it which state?

4th

14th

34th

44th

54th

2. In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed its residents to exercise popular sovereignty—the right to self-govern— to decide whether or not it would enter the union as a free state or a slave state, overturning what important political settlement?

Missouri Compromise

Nebraska Act

Douglas Act

52-40 or Fight

20th Parallel Act

3. What is the term given to the violence that swept the Kansas Territory for four years after the decision to void the Missouri Compromise?

Bloody Kansas

Bleeding Kansas

Hatchet Kansas

Abolitionist Kansas

Beecher's War

4. One of the most well known perpetrators of this violence was which abolitionist?

Charles Sumner

Harriet Beecher Stowe

John Brown

Edwin Stanton

William Garrison

5. What is sobriquet that applies to all Kansans, and especially University of Kansas fans, that came into use during the tumultuous 1850s?

Wildcats

Blue jays

Wild jays

Jayhawks

Prairie dogs

6. Located right in the middle of the Great Plains, Kansas is the world's largest producer of what good?

Corn

Soybean

Beets

Wheat

Sweet peas

7. Which U.S. president hailed from Abilene, Kansas?

Richard Nixon

Gerald Ford

Harry Truman

Calvin Coolidge

Dwight Eisenhower

8. From a sea of wheat, to a solo flight across the Atlantic, which famous aviator was born in Kansas?

Beryl Markham

Amelia Earhart

Orville Wright

Charles Lindberg

Red Baron

9. Discovered in the sun's atmosphere before terrestrial supplies were discovered first in Kansas, what is the second most abundant element in the universe?

Hydrogen

Lithium

Helium

Beryllium

Carbon

10. Before the OK Corral, where in Kansas did Wyatt Earp meet Doc Holliday?

Abilene

Dodge City

Lawrence

Topeka

Deadwood