Standard #3: Societies are shaped by Identities, Beliefs, and Practices of Individuals and Groups.
Continue your journey of Bleeding Kansas with the second episode in this video series. Students analyze the sequence of compromises which attempted to hold the United States together while the issue of slavery threatened to split the nation apart. This video culminates in the Kansas-Nebraska Act, setting the scene for a battleground that would inevitably lead to the American Civil War.
Use this video as a supplementary resource to the Kansas Journey textbook to provide your students exciting interpretation that breathes new life into old history.
Stay tuned for our next episode which will examine the people who came to Kansas Territory, their motivations for settling, and the effects it had on both Kansas and the entire nation.
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