Bleeding Kansas: A Fight Over Slavery

Anna Suellentrop Luke Ketter

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2 Annotated Bibliography

Primary Sources General Records of the United States. (1854). An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas. (Record Group 11). National Archives. We used this source to display the Kansas-Nebraska Act on our website in order to get a better picture and understanding of the document that caused Bleeding Kansas and to show what changes were made to the Missouri Compromise. General Records of the United States. (March 1, 1820). Conference committee report on the Missouri Compromise. (Record Group 128l). National Archives. We used this source to display the Missouri Compromise on our website to show how slavery was in the country before Kansas came into the union and to show how the Kansas-Nebraska Act changed what the government had decided on. Territorial Kansas. A Virtual Repository for Territorial Kansas. 2012. (Available http://www.territorialkansasonline.org/~imlskto/cgi-bin/index.php) We used a picture from this website taken of some of some Lawrence pioneers in 1856 in order to give a feel of what Lawrence was like at the time and what the citizens looked like. Secondary Sources Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project. Abraham Lincoln I Net. Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project. 2000. (Available http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/gal/us_1850_slvstatus_053101_400.jpg) We used a map from this website of America in 1850 telling which states and territories were free or slave. American Political Buttons. American Political Buttons. Election of 1856. (Available http://www.americanpoliticalbuttons.com/election-of-1856.html) We used a picture from this website of the democratic election ticket from the election of 1856 to show what each president looked like and what the tickets looked like in this time period. Assumption College. Assumption College. A College founded by the Augustinians of theAssumption.(Available http://www1.assumption.edu/ahc/1856CampaignSong1.gif) We used a picture of the lyrics to a song called Song for the People. This gave the website an older feel and showed how they got everyone to rally together.

3 Causes of the Civil War. (Available https://causesofthecivilwar.wikispaces.com/Formation+of+anti-slavery+political+parties) We used the election map of 1856 from this source for our website. Cope, Dorian. Dorian Cope Presents on this Deity. (Available http://www.onthisdeity.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/hf-john-brown.jpg) We used a picture of John Brown from this website to show what he looked like because he stands out from Bleeding Kansas. Dickinson College. Anniversary Edition House Divided. The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College. 2007. (Available http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/27358) We used a picture of the candidates of the election of 1856 to give a visual of the candidates in this time period. Dispatch Printing Company. The Columbus Dispatch. 2013. (Available http://www.dispatch.com/content/graphics/2012/09/01/antietam-art gjdj24pa-1union---confederate-flag.jpg) We used a picture from this website of the Confederate flag and the American flag together to put on our website to show the rivalry between the north and the south. Epperson, James F. Causes of the Civil War. Stockton: OTTN Publishing, 2005. This book is about everything that caused the Civil War to happen. It helped us to understand how much Bleeding Kansas caused the Civil War. We used this book to help explain that Bleeding Kansas was a turning point in history. Famento, Inc. XTimeline. Bleeding Kansas. 2008. (Available http://www.xtimeline.com/evt/view.aspx?id=186483) We used a picture from this website of violence taking place in Bleeding Kansas to demonstrate the first violences between the north and the south. Garvin, Patrick. PatrickGarvin.com. Coverage of Missouri/Kansas Border War and Mizzous SEC Move. 27 November 2011. (Available http://patrickgarvin.com/blog/?p=1401) We used a picture of a University of Missouri shirt with a picture of Lawrence burning down in Bleeding Kansas. This demonstrates the rivalry between Kansas and Missouri.

4 Goodrich, Thomas. War to the Knife: Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861. Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 1998. This is a book that gives details of the events that happened during Bleeding Kansas. We used this book to help fill in the details in our website and give more insight to the events that took place. Goodrich, Thomas. Bloody Dawn: The Story of the Lawrence Massacre. Kent: The Kent State University Press, 1991. This book is specifically about the raid on Lawrence, Kansas. It gave us more information on exactly how gruesome the battle was. We used it to get a deeper understanding of what caused the rivalry between Kansas and Missouri. Harp Week. American Political Prints 1766-1876. Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Freesoiler. (Available http://loc.harpweek.com/lcpoliticalcartoons/Disk6/5w/3b38367v5w.jpg) We used a cartoon from this website that depicts the way that the southerners seemed to be trying to force the northerners into accepting slavery. This helps portray to the viewer how Bleeding Kansas seemed to be forced upon the northerners. IXL Learning. Quia. 2013. (Available http://www.quia.com/files/quia/users/timdick55/causes/KansasNebraskaAct) This source is an educational website and we used a picture from it that helped make our website look more old fashioned. Jelsoft Enterprises, Ltd. Alternate History. 2000-2013. (Available http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=192773&page=8) We used this source to put a picture of a map of Kansas that showed where each outbreak took place during Bleeding Kansas. Johnson County Library. Johnson County Library. 2013. (Available http://www.jocolibrary.org/default.aspx?id=17586) This is the website of Johnson County Library, which gave us knowledge of the years that the events in Bleeding Kansas took place in order to create our timeline. Kansas Historical Society. Kansas Memory. 2007-2013. (Available http://img.kansasmemory.org/thumb500/00055461.jpg) We used this source to add a picture of a flyer created during Bleeding Kansas made to get others to help out and see what was happening in Kansas.

5 LJ World. (Available http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2011/apr/29/conflicts-commonplace kansas-long-beginning-civil-/) We used a picture from this website that helped us to give the website more of a feeling of the time during Bleeding Kansas.

Missouri History Museum. The Civil War in Missouri. Kansas-Nebraska Act: Bleeding Kansas. 2011. (Available http://www.civilwarmo.org/educators/resources/info-sheets/kansasnebraska-act-bleeding-kansas) We used this website because it gives more of a view into Missouris side of Bleeding Kansas. We used a picture from this website that helped illustrate what times were like during Bleeding Kansas. MPublishing. Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. A Living, Creeping Lie: Abraham Lincoln on Popular Sovereignty. (Available http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/2629860.0029.203?rgn=main;view=fulltext) We used this source for the quote by Abraham Lincoln found on the home page of the website. MU Web Communications. University of Missouri. Mizzou Wire. 2013. (Available http://mizzouwire.missouri.edu/stories/2008/mizzou-ku-08/images/full.jpg) We used a picture from this website of a poster made for an athletic game between The University of Kansas and the University of Missouri in 1897. This shows that the rivalry began right away and affected all aspects of the two schools. Nichols, Alice. Bleeding Kansas. New York: Oxford University Press, 1954. This book tells the story of when Kansas became a state and all of the events that took place around that time that affected the way Kansas entered the Union as a free state. We used this book to help explain how Bleeding Kansas affected Kansas as a state. Oertel, Kristen T. Bleeding Borders: Race, Gender, and Violence in Pre-Civil War Kansas. Louisiana: Louisiana State Press, 2009. We used this book to obtain information on the events that took place between Kansas and Missouri and how these events left an affect on America and Kansas today.

Pearson Education. Pearson. 2013. (Available http://wps.pearsoncustom.com/wps/media/objects/2428/2487068/images/Resources/ah3_ p056.jpg) Pearson is an educational site and we used a photo from it to add to our website. The picture was of a sign made during Bleeding Kansas warning colored people that they could be arrested because of the Fugitive Slave Act. This picture shows that colored people were becoming more unsafe because of slavery. SchoolworkHelper. St. Rosemary Educational Institution. (Available http://schoolworkhelper.net/american-presidential-election-of-1856/) We used an election map of 1856 from this source to put on our website to show election results. Shmoop University, Inc. Shmoop. Causes of the Civil War. 2011. (Available http://www.shmoop.com/causes-of-civil-war/photo-stephen-douglas.html) We used a picture of Stephen Douglas from this website to show what he looked like so that viewers could have a better visual when reading about him. Underlying, Inc. Dipity. 2011. (Available http://cdn.dipity.com/uploads/events/01a388be97b729a620a60f7be34f19f4_1M.png) This website gave us a picture to use of men fighting in front of a house demonstrating a skirmish that took place in Bleeding Kansas. This portrays the fact that Bleeding Kansas contained the first violence leading up to the Civil War. Virginia Memory. Library of Virginia. 2013. (Available http://www.virginiamemory.com/docs/11-04-1856_07_0082_67-1856.D38-BOX.jpg) We used this to get a map of the United States in the 1850s that shows which were free states or territories or which were slave states or territories. White House Historical Association. (Available http://www.whha.org/whha_classroom/classroom_9-12-warpowers-free.html) We used this source to put a map showing where the line drawn by the Missouri Compromise ran to show which places were supposed to become free and which were supposed to become slave states.

7 Wikipedia. The Free Encyclopedia. (Available http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Missouri_Compromise_Line.svg) We used a picture of the line drawn by the Missouri Compromise so that the viewer could see what the Missouri Compromise did and how it was changed when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was signed. World Book, Inc. World Book. Expanding Inquisitive Minds. 2011. (Available http://www.worldbook.com/content-spotlight/item/1752?wbredirect=1&Itemid=170) We used a picture of James Buchanan from this website to show the viewer what he looked like to give a better visual while reading the information. Zornow, William F. Kansas: A History of the Jayhawk State. Norman: The University of Oklahoma Press, 1957. This book tells the history of Kansas. We used it to get a full understanding of what took place from the Kansas-Nebraska Act to when Kansas became a state.