The years since the Civil War have been eventful ones. The Indian troubles on the frontier lasted from 1864 until 1869. Much property and more than 1000 lives were lost. National troops and a regiment of Kansas soldiers were required to quell the trouble. Governor Crawford resigned his position and took command of the Kansas troops. In 1878-’80 thousands of negroes arrived in Kansas. This movement from the South was called the “Exodus.” The grasshopper invasion in 1874 was followed by ten years of prosperity. Then came the boom, which was ended by the drouth in 1887. Eastern moneylenders held thousands of Kansas mortgages, and though several good crop years followed, the State had not yet recovered when the panic in 1893 brought renewed trouble. Good crops followed, and Kansas soon entered upon a period of prosperity which has continued to the present time. Kansas furnished four regiments for the Spanish-American War in 1898, and made the most of every opportunity to serve in the World War in 1917-’18. The State Capitol, which was begun in 1866, was completed in 1903. The years 1903, 1904, and 1908 were the flood years. Among the many important governmental measures are the prohibition and woman suffrage amendments. During the period since the Civil War Kansas has become a great and prosperous state. REFERENCES Andreas, History of Kansas, Selected Topics. Blackmar, Kansas, Selected Topics. Parrish, The Great Plains. Wright, Dodge City, the Cowboy Capital. Crawford, Kansas in the Sixties. Spring, Kansas, chap. IV. Prentis, History of Kansas, pp. 168, 172-173, 184, 194, 204, 211, 218-222. Historical Collections, Selected Topics. McCarter, Price of the Prairie. (A novel.) QUESTIONS 1. What were the conditions in Kansas at the close of the Civil War? 2. Give an account of the Indian troubles in Kansas. 3. How did the Homestead Law affect immigration? 4. Give an account of the grasshopper invasion and its effect on Kansas. 5. What progress was made during the next ten years? 6. What effect did the railroads have on immigration? 7. When was the “boom”? Describe conditions during the boom. What were some of its causes? What ended it? 8. What was the effect of this boom on Kansas? What have you learned from talking with persons who lived here in the “boom days”? 9. Tell something of the “hard times” of the early ’90’s. 10. What part did Kansas take in the Spanish-American War? 11. Give an account of the building of the State Capitol. 12. Give an account of the floods in Kansas. 13. Give an account of the opening of Oklahoma. How did it affect Kansas? 14. Compare Kansas to-day with Kansas as it was fifty years ago.