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Southpaw: idrabear replied to your post: I feel like this should have been...

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idrabear replied to your post: I feel like this should have been obvious…
Our state LOVES Native Americans and precious metals xD Gold rush, copper mines, silver mines, and all the horrible injustices perpetrated against Native Americans. And slavery in a “Oh, THOSE ignorant people in…

I can second the Kansas thing from middle school! (I was in Kansas City, though, not the rural bits.) We did learn a bit about Bleeding Kansas, although I don’t believe nearly enough time was spent on John Brown’s amazing creepiness. And I know that we touched on the origin of the Jayhawks’ name, too, but that might have been because most of my teachers were rabid KU fans. 

  1. writingfromfactorx reblogged this from hawkelf and added:
    Yeah, we got the same impression of John Brown when I had middle school Kansas-focused history, which is why I made the...
  2. hawkelf reblogged this from writingfromfactorx and added:
    The Jayhawk thing seems to be more emphasized the closer you get to the Missouri border, and to Lawrence, which makes...
  3. hawkelf said: XD The Dust Bowl was important (but over now), and you’re the first person out east I’ve heard say they learned near anything about it. But we got Bleeding Kansas, which, Civil War, but BIG part even we barely touched on. And I could go on a bit. XD
  4. travelingworkshop said: It is interesting. There was a little more to The Civil War than slavery, taxes mostly. The Restoration period was pretty much “Everything sucks and our land is overrun by yanks and now I have to pay the people who work for me.”
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