All of the westward expansion during Manifest Destiny finally tips the political scales irrevocably towards violence and aggression in two of the most gripping tales that lead to the American Civil War: The Pottawatomie Creek Massacre and the Caning of Charles Sumner. Listen in for a detailed coverage of these two events in our final episode on Manifest Destiny

21 - Bleeding Kansas and Charles Sumner (Manifest Destiny Part 3)

Join me, an 8th grade American history teacher, on this podcast as I discuss what we are learning about from week to week, why it mattered then, and why it still matters today.

Music: Vlad Gluschenko — Drop of Ocean
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

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Join me, an 8th grade American history teacher, on this podcast as I discuss what we are learning about from week to week, why it mattered then, and why it still matters today. Music: Vlad Gluschenko — Drop of Ocean License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

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21 - Bleeding Kansas and Charles Sumner (Manifest Destiny Part 3)

21 - Bleeding Kansas and Charles Sumner (Manifest Destiny Part 3)