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2. The Germans that came to Kansas, came from Russia.

3. For 100 years Germans lived in isolation in Russia.They enjoyed privileges that Empress Catherine had given them. But things began to change. The Germans began to lose their privileges. Their were unhappy that they now had to participate In military service!

4. The Germans from Russia experience growing red wheat. This is wheat that planted in the fall &harvested in the early summer.

5.  In 1872 the Kansas Pacific & the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail road started big campaigns to attract German from Russia to settle in Kansas.

6. This is a traditional German dress.