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At the time of the City of Kansas's incorporation, Missouri was still a slave state. However, the population was deeply divided over the issue of slavery.In 1854, the United States Congress passed the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which rejected the 1820 Missouri Compromise and allowed new territories to choose whether they wished to allow slavery, whereas the Missouri Compromise had prohibited ...
First electric lights used in KC; implemented by KCP&L. 1885. Kansas City Art Institute founded, later attended by Walt Disney. First overhead electric trolleys in the US used here. [5] 1889. The city of Kansas City formed by merger of Westport and City of Kansas. [1] Kansas City Public Library building opens.
The Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT), was an American commodity futures and options exchange regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Specializing in the hard-red winter wheat contract, it was located at 4800 Main Street in Kansas City, Missouri . On October 17, 2012, CME Group announced it would acquire the exchange for $126 ...
Exchange City was developed in the mid-90s by an organization called The Learning Exchange, a now-defunct Kansas City, Missouri-based nonprofit that provided resources to educators. ...
The Hopewell tradition, also called the Hopewell culture and Hopewellian exchange, describes a network of precontact Native American cultures that flourished in settlements along rivers in the northeastern and midwestern Eastern Woodlands from 100 BCE to 500 CE, in the Middle Woodland period. The Hopewell tradition was not a single culture or ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the Jackson County portions of Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map.
April 30, 1986. Wyandotte High School is a fully accredited public high school located in Kansas City, Kansas, United States. It serves students in grades 9 to 12 and operated by the Kansas City USD 500 school district. The building itself is a historic and notable public building, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...
Country Club District. Coordinates: 39.02°N 94.60°W. The Country Club District is the name of a group of neighborhoods comprising a historic upscale residential district in Kansas City, developed by noted real estate developer J.C. Nichols. The district was developed in stages between 1906 and 1950, and today is home to approximately 60,000 ...