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Kansas Primary Sources Gallopade International

The Kansas Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Kansas.

The Kansas Primary Sources will help your students build common core skills including:

Analysis
Critical Thinking
Point of View
Compare and Contrast
Order of Events
And Much More!

Perfect for gallery walks and literature circles! Great research and reference materials!

The 20 Kansas Primary Sources are:
1. Portrait of Chief White Plume, chief of the Kaw (Kansa) Indians 1822
2. Illustration of Constitutional Convention Topeka, Kansas Territory 1855
3. Political map of the United States showing slave states in gray, free states in pink, and Kansas in the center 1856
4. Political cartoon entitled "Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Freesoiler" - 1856
5. Poster advertising the Pony Express cross-country mail delivery service more than a dozen Pony Express stations were located in Kansas poster dated 1860
6. Illustration of shoppers in Sutlers Store Fort Dodge, Kansas 1867
7. Map of the Kansas Pacific Railway lines in the western U. S. 1869
8. Photograph of the High Plains in Haskell County, Kansas treeless grassland with a "buffalo wallow" in the level ground 1897
9. Photograph of scientist George Washington Carver spent formative years in Kansas 1906
10. Map of Oregon Trail crossing Kansas and five other states 1907
11. Cover of railroad promotional booklet promoting Kansas settlement 1907
12. Photograph of sod schoolhouse Oberlin, Kansas circa 1908
13. Dust storm bearing down on Rolla, Kansas, during Dust Bowl 1935
14. Photograph of Kansas Governor Alf Lan