Ballets and Bullets and Bushwackers Oh My Bleeding Kansas and the Civil War

An integrated, interdisciplinary, thematic unit on Bleeding Kansas This unit is important because it will aid the students in understanding the causes of Civil War and the effects the war had on Kansas. The Kansas-Nebraska Act not only set the stage for the Civil War but also made the nation tke notice of the issue of slavery, not only from a humanitarian point of veiw but from and economical point of view.