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ESSENTIAL
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How did the exploration of early Kansas by American
explorers affect later settlement and Indian policy?
2. What groups, individuals, ideas, events and
developments drove the era of immigration? |
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Readings-text and outside sources, maps and
graphs-both student and instructor generated.
2. What native groups were "relocated" to
Kansas? What problems arose between
"native" Kansas tribes and the
"immigrant" tribes? Why Europeans settled
where, when, and why? |
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Describe how Long's classification of Kansas as the
"Great American Desert" influenced
government policy on Indian relocation. Also how it
influenced the lack of early settlement. (K1I2)
2. Locate on maps, graphs, and charts various routes
of European as well as early American explorers.
(K1I2) |
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| Tests,
questions from text, map exercises,
projects-mapping, graphing, writing-both group and
individual, research writing, essay test |
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What
groups, individuals, ideas, events, and developments
drove the era of immigration?
1. Why was the Civil War era so pivotal to Kansas
history? |
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What
native groups were "relocated" to Kansas?
What problems arose between "native"
Kansas tribes and the "immigrant" tribes?
Why Europeans settled where, when, and why?
1. Popular sovereignty as described under the
Kansas-Nebraska Act. |
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Locate
on maps, graphs, and charts various routes of
European as well as early American exploers. (K2I2)
1. Research the territorial crisis-dual state
constitutions, political ramifications of Kansas
statehood on the national level, learn the forces
that drove the guerilla warfare in Kansas, the
pro-South Bushwhacker and the pro-North Jayhawker,
the "New England" connection, Kansas
contribution to the union (K3I1, K3I2) |
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| Tests,
questions from text, map exercises, projects both
group and individual, research writing, essay test |
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Why was the Civil War era so pivotal to Kansas
history?
2. Key elements of the post Civil War era of
expansion and development in Kansas 1865-1900 |
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Popular sovereignty as described under the
Kansas-Nebraska Act.
2. Impact of railroad expansion, various immigration
movements, exodustor, German-Russian/German, other
European, Mexican |
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Territorial crisis-dual state constitutions,
political ramifications of Kansas statehood,
understand the forces that drove the guerilla
warfare in Kansas, the pro-South Bushwhacker and the
pro-North Jayhawker, the "New England"
connection, Kansas contribution to the union (K3I1,
K3I2)
2. Importance of railroad to development of the
Texas cattle industry and development of small towns
and cities (K4I7)-overall impact of the railroad on
agriculture development as well as small industry
(coal mining in southeast Kansas), exodustor-free
slaves-found free land in Kansas, left south to
escape "Jim Crow laws." (K4I3) |
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| Tests,
questions from text, map exercises, projects both
group and individual, research writing, essay test |
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What were the key elements of the post Civil War era
of expansion and development in Kansas 1865-1900
2. What are elements in the development of
industrialization and modernization of Kansas
1900-present. |
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Impact of railroad expansion, various immigration
movements, exodustor, German-Russian/German, other
European, Mexican
2. Rise of populism in Kansas and the general
Progressive movement, accomplishments of the
movements |
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Students will demonstrate the importance of railroad
to development of the Texas cattle industry and
development of small towns and cities (K4I7)-overall
impact of the railroad on agriculture development as
well as small industry (coal mining in southeast
Kansas), exodustor-free slaves-found free land in
Kansas, left south to escape "Jim Crow
laws." (K4I3)
2. Why Europeans came in search of opportunities.
Show that the reform movement was a direct outgrowth
of the expansion of railroads without big business
and how the "common man" was treated.
(K4I6) Disillusionment with big business, regulation
of monopolies, banking regulations, health
improvements |
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| Tests,
questions from text, map exercises, projects both
group and individual, research writing, essay test |
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What are the key elements in the development of
industrialization and modernization of Kansas
1900-present. |
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Describe the effects of the Dust Bowl on Kansas both
urban and rural. Compare and contrast pre-World War
II Kansas to post-World War II Kansas. Rise of
industry extractive as well as industrial |
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Great Depression and the effect on the overall
population of Kansas as well as the economy (K5I1,
K5I2), the rise of the oil and gas industry from
1892 to present, the rise and fall of the coal
industry, (K6I2) impact of industry and
agri-business on the environment, the rural exodus
to the towns and cities and the development of the
industrial triangle at the end of World War II. |
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| Tests,
questions from text, map exercises, projects both
group and individual, research writing, essay test |
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