BARTON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
COURSE SYLLABUS
I. GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION
Course Number: HIST 1406
Course Title: History of Kansas
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite: None
Division and Discipline: Liberal Arts and Science/Humanities/History
Course Description: A survey of the exploration, settlement, and development of Kansas with special emphasis upon early history.
II. CLASSROOM POLICY
Students and faculty of Barton County Community College constitute a special community engaged in the process of education. The college assumes that its students and faculty will demonstrate a code of personal honor that is based upon courtesy, integrity, common sense, and respect for others both within and outside the classroom.
The College reserves the right to suspend a student for conduct that is detrimental to the College’s educational endeavors as outlined in the College Catalog.
Plagiarism on any academic endeavors at Barton County Community College will not be tolerated. Learn the rules of, and avoid instances of, intentional or unintentional plagiarism.
Anyone seeking an accommodation under the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act should notify Student Support Services.
III. COURSE AS VIEWED IN TOTAL CURRICULUM
History of Kansas meets the general education requirement in the humanities area. This course will transfer to all Kansas colleges and universities.
The student will profit from the course because it covers a broad array of topics that will arouse the student's curiosity and help develop a general perspective and understanding of Kansas’s history. Consequently, it will provide him/her with an appreciation of Kansas’s heritage and an understanding of the important problems of Kansas that are relative to the content of other courses in his/her program of study.
History of Kansas offers the student a survey of exploration, settlement, development, geography, and achievements and problems of Kansas.
IV. ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING/COURSE OUTCOMES
Barton County Community College is committed to the assessment of student learning and to quality education. Assessment activities provide a means to develop an understanding of how students learn, what they know, and what they can do with their knowledge. Results from these various activities guide Barton, as a learning college, in finding ways to improve student learning.
Students will have successfully completed History of Kansas if they demonstrate mastery of all objectives and competencies at a minimum of 72 percent correct. Upon completion of the History of Kansas course students will:
1. Demonstrate knowledge of the significant historic events in Kansas from
1541 to present.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of the importance of the geological and
geographical environment of the state of Kansas.
3. Demonstrate knowledge of the cultures in the prehistoric eras.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of the state and local government systems.
5. Demonstrate knowledge of the chronology of significant events.
6. Demonstrate knowledge of the impact of American and world events on
the people of Kansas.
7. Apply concepts learned in History of Kansas to current events.
V. COURSE COMPETENCIES
Upon completion of this course the student will:
Chapter One Objectives:
1.0) Identify, define, and/or apply the significance of the following terms .
short and grass prairie. Great Plains, line of semi- aridity, geodetic
datum, and Mount Sunflower.
2.0) Discuss and/or identify the two river drainage basins, the source of the Kansas (Kaw) River, and on a map, label the Arkansas, Saline, Kansas (Kaw), Smoky Hill, Missouri, and Republican Rivers.
3.0) Discuss and/or identify the geological origins of Kansas, including the concepts of sit layers, glaciation, earthquakes and volcanic activity in Kansas and how the geological past affects the current geography of Kansas.
4.0) Discuss and/or identify the first humans to enter Kansas during the Paleo period including the terms and concepts of Homo sapiens, mega founa, att atl, and ice-free corridor.
5.0) Discuss and/or identify the major characteristics of the Archaic, Plains - Woodlands, and village Farmers of the human habitation before European contact. The following concepts will be mastered; the differences between the Paleo and Archaic hunters, simple and complete agriculture, the influence of the Mound Builders, class( need to ask about this section)
6.0) Discuss and/or identify the major characteristics of the modern Indians who were in Kansas at the time of contact, including tribes who formed or were nomadic buffalo hunters.
7.0) Discuss and/or identify the diversity between tribes, including language classification.
8.0) Discuss an/or identify the significance of Kansas symbols, Jayhawk, Meadowlark, and Sunflowers.
Chapter Two Objectives:
1.0) Discuss, identify and/or apply the following terms: Roman principle,
Encomendo System, Conquistador, Holy Writ, or Requiremento,
conquistador, dog baiting. Cibola, and Lengends of the Seven bishops.
2.0) Discuss and/or identify the significance of the following concepts: The
control of the church and state in Spanish exploration and settlement. the
different views of the potential of the Great Plains between American and Spanish explorers.
3.0) Discuss and/or identify the major aspects of the Coronado Expedition
including: The roles of the Turk and Estavan (Estaban), Pedro de
Castaneda, Father Juan Padilla, Francisco Coronado, Quivira, and the result
of the expedition.
4.0) Discuss and/or identify the similar fate of the Leyua/Humana and
Villazure Expeditions.
5.0) Discuss and/or identify the significance of the Juan de Oñate Expedition.
6.0) Discuss and /or identify the significance of French Explorers and traders.
Marquette and Jolliet, Paul and Pierre Mallet, Chouteau Family and the
locations Deer Creek camp and Fort Cavagnial. Expedition.
8.0) Discuss and/or identify the significance of the Louisiana Purchase, Lewis
and Clark, Pike, Long Expeditions, including Long's concept of The Great
American Desert, Captain Bell's mapping the bend in the Arkansas River;
and suggested use of the Great Plains as an Indian Reservation.
Chapter Three Objectives:
1.0) Discuss and/or identify the significance of the following individuals or events:
Isaac McCoy, Benton Pixley, and Osage Mission, Shawnee Mission,
2.0) Discuss and/or identify the reason 19th century Indian policy was handled so
poorly.
3.0) Discuss and/or identity Isaac McCoy's reasons for removing eastern Indians to
Kansas’s reservations
4.0) Discuss and/or identify the problems immigrant Indians have faced during the
removal, and Kansas’s reservation and missionary eras (1824-1854).
5.0) Discuss and/or identify the successes and failures of the missions.
6.0) Discuss and/or identify current Indian reservations in Kansas.
7.0) Discuss and/or identify why the Kansas reservation and missionary era ended in
1854.
8.0) Discuss and/or identify the significance of the term ethnocide as it applies to The
Rules for Indian schools.
Chapter Four Objectives:
1.0) Discuss and/or identify the routines, purpose, and routes of the Oregon,
California, Mormon, and Santa Fe Trail.
2.0) Discuss and/or identify the significance of the following events as they relate to
the Santa Fe Trail. Mexican Revolution 1821, Walnut Creek Massacre, and
completion of the railroad line to Santa Fe in 1880.
3.0) Discuss and or/identify the significance of the following individuals as they relate
to the Santa Fe Trail: William Becknell, Chouteau Family Traders, Kit Carson,
Susan Magoffin, William, and Charles Bent (Bent St Vrain Company).
4.0) Discuss and/or identify the significance of the following landmarks on the Santa
Fe Trail: Independence, Council Grove, Walnut Creek Crossing, Pawnee Rock,
Bent's Fort, Santa Fe New Mexico.
5.0) Discuss an/or identify the significance of the following terms: muleskinners,
bullwackers, Murphy Wagons and taxes, and Mexican traders.
6.0) Discuss and/or identify the reason for choosing oxen or mules to pull freight
wagons.
7.0) Discuss and/or identify the significance of Russell, Majors and Waddell,
Alexander Majors, Ben Holiday, David Butterfield, Kansas River Crossing owned
by Pappian family.
8.0) Discuss and/or identify the major aspects of the Pony Express, including the
reason it was established and the company routine.
Chapter Five Objectives:
1.0) Discuss identify and/or apply the following terms: Bleeding Kansas,
Lecompton Constitution, bogus Legislature.
2.0) Discuss and/or identify the significance of the following individuals:
Charles Robinson, James Lane, Samuel Pomeroy, Stephen Douglas,
David Atchinson, John Brown, Dr. James Jennison, William Quantrill,
Bill Anderson, Senator Charles Sumner, Charles Hamilton, and Clarina Nichols.
3.0) Discuss and/or identify the significance of New England Immigrant Aid and Eli
Thayer.
4.0) Discuss and/or identify the following events: Wakarusa War, destruction
of Lawrence by Sheriff Jones in 1856, Osawatomie Massacre by John Brown,
Marais de Cynes Massacre by Charles Hamilton, and Colonel Titus' surrender of Fort Titus.
5.0) Discuss and/or identify the authors, provisions and background of the 1854
Kansas Nebraska Act.
6.0) Discuss and/or identify the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention in terms of the
issues, delegates, and final document.
7.0) Discuss and/or identify the delay of Kansas achieving statehood.
8.0) Identify the date Kansas became the 34th state.
9.0) Identify and/or identify the problems the numerous territorial governors would
have.
Chapter Six Objectives:
1.0) Discuss and/or identify the advantages and disadvantages of Kansas
becoming a state in 1861.
2.0) Discuss and/or identify the problem or problems that new state would have.
3.0) Discuss and/or identify the significance of the following individuals to the early
history of Kansas government: Governor Charles Robinson, Senators James Lane
and Samuel Pomeroy, Congressman Martin Conway, and Senator Edmond Ross.
4.0) Discuss and/or identify the events leading to and the results of the impeachment
trial and of Governor Charles Robinson.
5.0) Discuss and/or identify the significance of the following individuals and events
during the Civil War era: General Nathaniel Lyons, General Sterling Price's 1861 and 1864 invasions, William Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence, led by William Quantrill, Battles of Wilson's Creek and Battle of the Big Blue, General Order number 11, and Stand Waite.
6.0) Discuss and/or identify the results of the Civil War on Kansas.
7.0) Describe and/or identify the significance of the following individuals and events
during the Indian Wars: John Chivington, Black Kettle, Sand Creek Massacre,
Hancock Expedition, Medicine Lodge Treaty, Dull Knife's escape, Tall Bull's defeat at Summit Springs, Quannah Parker and Wishita.
8.0) Describe and/or identify the factors that led to the defeat of the Indians during the
Indian War period.
9.0) Discuss, identify and/or apply the following terms: buffalo soldiers, Peace
Commission, Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), and Waving the Bloody Shirt.
Chapter Seven Objectives:
1.0) Discuss and/or identify the significance of the following individuals: Cyrus K.
Holiday and Fred Harvey.
2.0) Discuss and/or identify the significance of the transcontinental railroad,
transcontinental telegraph, Kansas Pacific, and Atchinson, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad completion.
3.0) Discuss and/or identify the sources of railroad financing, especially the mportance
of the land-grant
4.0) Discuss and/or identify the railroad's abuse of power.
5.0) Discuss and/or identify the routes of the Kansas Pacific and Atchinson, Topeka,
and Santa Fe Railroad lines, as they relate to previous freight trails.
6.0) Discuss and/or identify the following terms: Forest Park Addition, Harvey Girls,
Harvey House, Sportsmen's Special, Colorado Railroad War, and Hell on Wheels.
7.0) Discuss and/or identify the characteristics of railroad travel in the 19th century.
Chapter Eight Objectives:
1.0) Discuss and/or identify the significance of the following individuals: Joseph
McCoy, Dora Hand, Tom Smith, Mattie Silks, Henry Brown, and Wyatt Earp.
2.0) Discuss and/or identify the significance of the following events: termination
of the buffalo, ranch cooperatives, winter of 1886-87, vigilantes, and the
Police Commission.
3.0) Discuss and/or identify the Western and Chisholm cattle trails, routes, and
towns of destination.
4.0) Discuss the reasons why the time was right for Kansas to become a cattle
shipping region in 1867.
5.0) Discuss and/or identify the major characteristics of the following cow towns:
Abilene, Wichita, Newton, and Dodge City.
6.0) Discuss the major aspects of a cattle drive.
7.0) Discuss the life of a 19th century prostitute.
8.0) Discuss and/identify the reasons the long drives ended.
Chapter Nine Objectives:
1.0 Discuss and/or identify the significance of the following terms: pre-emption, sod
crop, and orphan trains.
2.0) Discuss and/or identify the 1862 Homestead Act including the reason it was
passed, provisions, amendments, and frauds.
3.0) Discuss and/or identify the crops adapted to the Great Plains environment
including Turkey, Red Hard Winter Wheat, and the problems associated with it.
4.0) Discuss and /or identify equipment adaptations needed to make farming profitable
and life possible.
5.0) Discuss and/or identify the adaptations for living on the Great Plains.
6.0) Discuss and/or identify the importance of immigration to settling the Great Plains.
7.0) Discuss and/or identify the pattern of boom and bust cycles, including the 1874
grasshopper plagues and Depressions of 1873 and 1893 and the importance of wars or boom cycles.
8.0) Discuss and/or identify the conflicts and frauds associated with Finney or Harper
County.
9.0) Discuss and/or identify the criminal activity of the Benders and Daltons.
10.0) Discuss the implication of the end of the frontier and 1893 Oklahoma Land Rush.
Chapter Ten Objectives:
1.0) Discuss and/or identify the significance of the following individuals:
Bernhard Warkentin, C. B. Schmidt, Dr. Carl Swenson, Birger Sandzen,
Marcet Haldeman, Ernest de Boissiere, George Gran, Pap Singleton, Governor
John St. John and Frances Swehla.
2.0) Discuss and/or apply the significance of the following terms: steerage,
immigration quota, German-Russians, Scandinavians, Bohemians, Jolly Club,
Exodus, Freedman's Relief Association, Anarchism, Socialism, Ellis Island,
Frontenac, and blacklisted.
3.0) Discuss and/or identify the common problems the immigrants would have.
4.0) Discuss and/or identify the major reason, land ownership, people left Europe,
America to come to Kansas.
Discuss and/or identify the significance of the following communities:
1.0) Lindsborg, Wilson, Crawford County, Silkville, Emporia, Atwood,
Wakefield, Victoria, Runny Meade, Sterling, Hays, Bersheba, and Nicodemus.
2.0) Discuss and/or identify the changing view of the immigrants, the reasons for the
change, and the results.
3.0) Discuss and/or identify the recent immigration.
4.0) Discuss and/or identify the importance of railroad land and advertising.
5.0) Discuss and/or identify major aspects of the immigrant experience as shown in the
film "Journey to America."
Chapter Eleven Objectives: