1854-1865

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.

Using iMovie on your mac computer, discuss how slavery shaped life in the Kansas Territory. Be sure to address topics like, border ruffians, bushwhackers, jayhawker's the Underground Railroad, free-staters, abolitionists.

Tutorial:

iMovie 1

iMovie 2

iMovie 3

Chapters to Use from __The Kansas Journey:__

 * Chapter 4: Kansas Territory: The Saga of Bleeding Kansas page 66**

Standards: 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.4, and 4.2.5

 * Chapter 5: //Ad Aspera Per Aspera:// Kansas Becomes a State**

Places to Visit:

 * Indicates places that repeat through the units of study.**

Constitution Hall State Historic Site-Lecompton Constitution Hall


 * First Territorial Capitol State Historic Site-Fort Riley First Capitol**


 * Fort Hays State Historic Site, Hays Fort Hays


 * Fort Larned National Historic Site, Larned Fort Larned**


 * Fort Scott National Historic Site, Fort Scott Fort Scott


 * Frontier Army Museum, Leavenworth Frontier Army**


 * Goodnow House State Historic Site-Manhattan Goodnow**


 * Hollenberg State State Historic Site-Hanover, KS Hollenberg

John Brown Museum State Historic Site-Osawatomie John Brown


 * Kansas Museum of History, Topeka Kansas Museum**


 * Kansas State Capitol, Topeka Kansas Capitol

Marais Des Cygnes Massacre State Historic Site-Pleasanton Marais Des Cygnes


 * Mine Creek Battlefield State Historic Site, Pleasanton Mine Creek**


 * Shawnee Indian Mission, Fairway Shawnee Mission

State Standards:
4.2 The student understands individuals, groups, ideas, events, and developments during Kansas territory and the Civil War (1854-1865).

4.2.1 (A) The student describes the concept of popular sovereignty under the Kansas-Nebraska Act and its impact on developing a state constitution.

4.2.2 *K) The student describes how the dispute over slavery shaped life in Kansas Territory (e.g., border ruffians, bushwhackers, jayhawker's the Underground Railroad, free-staters, abolitionists).

4.2.3 A) The student analyzes the importance of "Bleeding Kansas" to the rest of the United States in the years leading up to the Civil War (e.g., national media attention, caning of Senator Charles Summer, Emigrant Aid Societies, Beecher Bible and Rifle Colony, poems of John Greenleaf Whittier, John Brown).

4.2.4 (K) The student describes the role of important individuals during the territorial period (e.g., Charles Robinson, James Lane, John Brown, Clarina Nichols, Samuel Jones, David Atchison, Andrew H. Reeder).

4.2.5 (A) The student analyzes the Wyandotte Constitution with respect to the civil rights of women and African Americans.

4.2.6 (K) The student describes important events in Kansas during the Civil War (e.g., Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence, the Battle of Mine Creek, recruitment of volunteer regiments).