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2. a person in favor of
6. cattle trail from Texas that ended in Kansas towns
8. lobbied for women's rights in new state
9. fort built in 1865 that is now an old soldier's home
11. Fort used an agency of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
12. search and destroy
15. trade route to New Mexico
16. type of warfare in Kansas during the Civil War
19. Fort which was site of first Territorial capital
23. a group of troups
26. the Smoky Hill trail was known as the ___________ Trail
28. _______ des Cygnes: site of killing of 5 men by antislavery proponents
29. Commander of Army of the Frontier
30. dangerous
31. trail to West Coast
32. Fort which was a home of the Buffalo Soldiers
33. first territorial governor in Kansas
34. furthest western fort in Kansas

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1. only major Civil War battle in Kansas
3. Confederate general defeated at the Battle of Mine Creek
4. name of first state Constitution
5. leader of antislavery group
7. city attacked by Quantrill
10. storage place
11. site of proposed proslavery Constitution
12. first governor of the state of Kansas
13. led the 7th Cavalry
14. _____ Staters: name given antislavery proponents in Kansas
17. Kansas supported this side in the Civil War
18. site of first US fort in Kansas
20. fort whose troops served in the Mexican War
21. ______ Ruffians: name given proslavery proponents in Kansas
22. nickname for Kansas just prior to Civil War
24. small battle
25. killing unresisting people
26. types of elections the first state Constitution allowed women to vote
27. founded Manhattan and Kansas State University

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