1860-1870

Objectives:
Objectives list what you will learn in this period of KS History, please refer to the standards at the bottom of this page.

Final Project:
This is how you will show what it is you have learned in this time period.

Create a website to teach about the reasons for tension between the American Indians and the United States government over land in Kansas. Remember to put information on: encroachment on Indian lands, depletion of the buffalo and other natural resources, the Sand Creek massacre, broken promises.

Also present information on the Exoduster movement from the South to Kansas. Mention relatively free land, symbol of Kansas as a free state, the rise of Jim Crow laws in the South, promotions of Benjamin "Pap" Singleton.

Wix or Weebly are two of the free website making tools you can choose from.

Chapters to Use from __The Kansas Journey:__
Standard: 4.3.7
 * Chapter 1: Home on the Range page 2**

Standards: 4.3.1, 4.3.2
 * Chapter 5: //Ad Aspera Per Aspera//: Kansas Becomes a State page 96**

Standards: 4.3.4, 4.3.4, 4.3.5, 4.3.6, and 4.3.7
 * Chapter 6: Welcome to Kansas: "Her Light Shall Shine" page120**

Standards: 4.3.3, 4.3.6, and 4.3.7
 * Chapter 7: Railroads, Cattle, and Agriculture page 140**

State Standards:
4.3 The student understands individuals, groups, ideas, events, and developments during the period of expansion and development in Kansas (1860s- 1870s).

4.3.1 (K) The student describes the reasons for tension between the American Indians and the United States government over land in Kansas (e.g., encroachment on Indian lands, depletion of the buffalo and other natural resources, the Sand Creek massacre, broken promises).

4.3.2 (K) The student describes the United States government's purpose for establishing frontier military forts in Kansas (e.g., protection of people, land, resources).

4.3.3 (A) The student determines the significance of the cattle drives in post-Civil War Kansas and their impact on the American identity (e.g., Chisholm Trail, cowboys, cattle towns).

4.3.5 (K) The student describes the reasons for the Exoduster movement from the South to Kansas (e.g., relatively free land, symbol of Kansas as a free state, the rise of Jim Crow laws in the South, promotions of Benjamin "Pap" Singleton).

4.3.6 (K) The student explains the impact of government policies and the expansion of the railroad on settlement and town development (e.g., preemption, Homestead Act, Timber Claim Act, railroad lands).

4.3.7 (A) The student uses primary source documents to determine the challenges faced by settlers and their means of adaptations (e.g., drought, depression, grasshoppers, lack of some natural resources, isolation).