The Key to State Histories

Kansas, Illinois, Oklahoma and Texas Histories are now available.

The Key to State Histories are online programs targeted towards middle and high school students. They include an overview of the state and sections with general information about  different periods in the state's history from the prehistoric to the present time.

Throughout the text in each section, links are identified to other web sites that provide more detailed information about specific events, places or people. Study guide questions are included with each section and vocabulary words are identified in italics throughout the text

Other sections of the program have links to biographies of famous persons, timelines of the state's history, sights and sounds of the state and current information about the state. 

The Key to State Histories also provide student activities for class or group assignments, crossword puzzles and online quizzes. The answers to the study guide questions and crossword puzzles are in the Teacher files, which are protected by a password. The online quizzes are multiple choice randomly displayed questions that can be taken as often as needed.

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