USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Kansas’s early settlers were principally antislavery New Englanders of British ancestry. After the American Civil War and with the building of the railroads, many central Europeans were attracted by the promise of jobs laying track and of free land when the jobs were finished.

Detailed explanation-2: -Many came from Germany but many others were living near the Volga River in Russia. They called themselves Volga-German or German-Russian. Swedish pioneers who moved to central Kansas in the mid-1800s called their new home “framtidslandet, ” the land of the future. Many left Sweden when famine threatened starvation.

Detailed explanation-3: -Today, Kansas is a leader in wheat, grain sorghum and beef production. The dairy sector is rapidly expanding in Kansas and other sectors of animal agriculture are growing as well.

Detailed explanation-4: -Egyptians were among the first peoples to practice agriculture on a large scale, starting in the pre-dynastic period from the end of the Paleolithic into the Neolithic, between around 10, 000 BC and 4000 BC. This was made possible with the development of basin irrigation.