Click the "Bleeding Kansas" button below to read a short article. After you have finished reading, watch the video and answer the following questions in your OW box.
Questions
1. What is the Kansas and Nebraska act?
2. What is Popular Sovereignty?
3. What happened in May of 1856? (watch video)
4. What is an Abolitionist?
5. Who was John Brown?
6. Why did Kansas get the nickname Bleeding Kansas?
7. What wast the name of the Kansas constitution that was accepted by the National Government?
Extra Credit 1. How many constitutions were proposed to National Government before Kansas was allowed to become a state? (including the finale constitution)
Extra Credit 2. What does the Kansas state motto "Ad Astra Per Aspera" mean?
1. What is the Kansas and Nebraska act?
2. What is Popular Sovereignty?
3. What happened in May of 1856? (watch video)
4. What is an Abolitionist?
5. Who was John Brown?
6. Why did Kansas get the nickname Bleeding Kansas?
7. What wast the name of the Kansas constitution that was accepted by the National Government?
Extra Credit 1. How many constitutions were proposed to National Government before Kansas was allowed to become a state? (including the finale constitution)
Extra Credit 2. What does the Kansas state motto "Ad Astra Per Aspera" mean?