4. Why did Missouri play an important part in early Kansas affairs? Explain how Missourians took claims.
5. Why did the North organize emigrant aid companies? What was the chief company? What did it do? Did all the Kansas settlers come under the management of these companies?
6. What was the attitude of the South toward these organizations?
7. When did the first emigrant aid party arrive? Tell of their journey; their settlement. Were they the first free-state settlers to arrive?
8. Give an account of the second party. Tell something of the way they lived. What had been accomplished by the time winter set in?
9. What was the Actual Settlers’ Association? Why was it formed?
10. Name several persons connected with this period of Kansas history, and tell something of each.
11. Name and locate some of the towns settled during this period.