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7th Grade Kansas History Standard Benchmark 3 History Standard:  The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas, events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and research skills. BENCHMARK  3:  The student understands individuals, groups, ideas, events, and developments during the period of expansion and development in Kansas (1860s-1870s). Benchmark e Indicator 5(K) In the "Other Resources" category Below "Exoduster Flier"

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Seventh Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators	Lesson Plans	Ritchie House Resources	Other Resources
1 *(K) The student describes the reasons for tension between the American Indians and the United States government over land in Kansas (e.g. encroachment on Indian lands, depletion of the buffalo and other natural resources, the Sand Creek massacre, broken promises).			Sunflower Journeys POTAWATOMI CHIEF ABRAM B. BURNETT REMOVAL OF THE OSAGES FROM KANSAS (Part 1), Berlin B. Chapman - Kansas Collection: Kansas Historical Quarterlies, August, 1938 OSAGE NATION
2 (K) The student describes the United States government’s purpose for establishing frontier military forts in Kansas (e.g. protection of people, land, resources).			Sunflower Journeys Fort Scott National Historic Site: The Army's Role at Fort Scott
3 (A) The student determines the significance of the cattle drives in post-Civil War Kansas and their impact on the American identity (e.g. Chisholm Trail, cowboys, cattle towns).			Sunflower Journeys GUS BELLPORT - KANSAS COWBOY
4 (A) The student traces the migration patterns of at least one European ethnic group to Kansas (e.g. English French, Germans, German-Russians, Swedes).			Sunflower Journeys
5 *(K) The student describes the reasons for the Exoduster movement from the South to Kansas (e.g. relatively free land, symbol of Kansas as a free state, the rise of Jim Crow laws in the South, promotions of Benjamin “Pap” Singleton).		Richard T. Greener:  Defending The “Negro Exodus” 1880 (PDF) Frederick Douglass:  Arguments Against the “Negro Exodus” 1880 (PDF)	The Exodusters (PODCAST) Sunflower Journeys Archeology of an Exoduster Neighborhood NEGRO EXODUS-Kansas Cyclopedia, 1912 FREEDMEN'S RELIEF ASSOCIATION-Kansas Cyclopedia, 1912 The "Exodusters" on the Missouri by Glen Schwendemann Wyandotte and the First "Exodusters" of 1879 by Glen Schwendemann THE EXODUS-Fry Giles (1886) The Exodus To Freedom: Tales of the Exodusters Benjamin "Pap" Singleton Exoduster Flier AFRICAN AMERICAN SETTLEMENTS Nicodemus Colony DUNLAP-A Ghost Town of Morris County, Kansas
6. (K) The student explains the impact of government policies and the expansion of the railroad on settlement and town development (e.g., preemption, Homestead Act, Timber Claim Act, railroad lands).			HOMESTEAD ACT-May 20, 1862
7. (A) The student uses primarysource documents to determine the challenges faced by settlers and their means of adaptations (e.g., drought, depression, grasshoppers, lack of some naturalresources, isolation).