Statewide - Kansas Museum of History - Virtual Classroom
This virtual program is free.
Donations are welcome to support programming.
This month's Virtual Classroom features John Brown and the Fight Over Slavery in Kansas. This Nearpod.com lesson can be teacher led or self-paced for students. The lesson begins with a map-reading exercise to understand the history of slavery expansion in the U.S. up to 1854 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Using primary sources, students learn about the "Bleeding Kansas" conflicts due to the implementation of Popular Sovereignty. Interactive quizzes and open-ended questions provide students the opportunity to evaluate abolitionist John Brown's role to end slavery. Students will then interpret symbols representing this time period using artist John Steuart Curry's mural, Tragic Prelude.
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For questions, please contact Joy Brennan, joy.brennan@ks.gov.
