Thesis: From small town massacres to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, to the hanging of abolitionists and to protecting the president, Kansas played a key role in the Civil War.
I. In the Civil war there were people who didn’t want slavery in the states.
A. John Brown was an abolitionist from Kansas.
1. On the thirteenth of May 1856, John led free-staters to parts of eastern Kansas.
2. In his time, John Brown killed five men.
B. White men were not the only men to fight for Kansas’ freedom.
1. On January 13, 1863 several black men from Kansas mustered a battalion.
2. On Island Mound, Missouri, October 29, the black troops skirmished with Confederates.
3. This battle was also significant for another reason.
C. Another man who allied himself with …show more content…
After Blunt was appointed major general, he was also appointed to be the Lieutenant Colonel of the Second Kansas Volunteer Regiment.
II. Countless men from Kansas did great things, but the other didn’t.
A. William Clarke was a teacher from Ohio who became one of the most well-known people from Kansas.
1. William Clarke, or better known as Quantrill, was the leader of the Confederate Guerrillas.
2. For a while, Quantrill was an anti-slavery protestor, but left for unknown reasons.
3. Before the Lawrence Massacre actually took place, Quantrill began planning the massacre months before hand.
B. On May 21, 1856 Samuel J. Jones attacked Lawrence.
1. Not much is known about Samuel Jones.
2. When Jones attacked Lawrence, the town had only been established for two years.
3. In response to this attack was the Pottawatomie Massacre.
III. Bloody Kansas didn’t get the name ‘Bloody Kansas’ for nothing.
A. On August 25, twenty Missourian men were camped nine miles north of the town Osawatomie.
1. The north wanted a meeting on the land.
2. The Missourians had gone into the camp located on the Santa Fe Trail seven or eight miles east of Black Jack Springs.
3. The next morning Fredrick Brown and his brothers travel to Osawatomie.
4. The leader of the scouting party saw Fredrick and shot him in the
I. In the Civil war there were people who didn’t want slavery in the states.
A. John Brown was an abolitionist from Kansas.
1. On the thirteenth of May 1856, John led free-staters to parts of eastern Kansas.
2. In his time, John Brown killed five men.
B. White men were not the only men to fight for Kansas’ freedom.
1. On January 13, 1863 several black men from Kansas mustered a battalion.
2. On Island Mound, Missouri, October 29, the black troops skirmished with Confederates.
3. This battle was also significant for another reason.
C. Another man who allied himself with …show more content…
After Blunt was appointed major general, he was also appointed to be the Lieutenant Colonel of the Second Kansas Volunteer Regiment.
II. Countless men from Kansas did great things, but the other didn’t.
A. William Clarke was a teacher from Ohio who became one of the most well-known people from Kansas.
1. William Clarke, or better known as Quantrill, was the leader of the Confederate Guerrillas.
2. For a while, Quantrill was an anti-slavery protestor, but left for unknown reasons.
3. Before the Lawrence Massacre actually took place, Quantrill began planning the massacre months before hand.
B. On May 21, 1856 Samuel J. Jones attacked Lawrence.
1. Not much is known about Samuel Jones.
2. When Jones attacked Lawrence, the town had only been established for two years.
3. In response to this attack was the Pottawatomie Massacre.
III. Bloody Kansas didn’t get the name ‘Bloody Kansas’ for nothing.
A. On August 25, twenty Missourian men were camped nine miles north of the town Osawatomie.
1. The north wanted a meeting on the land.
2. The Missourians had gone into the camp located on the Santa Fe Trail seven or eight miles east of Black Jack Springs.
3. The next morning Fredrick Brown and his brothers travel to Osawatomie.
4. The leader of the scouting party saw Fredrick and shot him in the