Richmond Chapter 5: "Bleeding Kansas: The Territorial Period"

This chapter was incredibly informative over the forming of Kansas government. I think the best teaching activity to go along with this information would be a class project to construct a newspaper. There were so many events that happened in Kansas at that time, enough to fill a newspaper. Each student could research one event and write an article, find a picture, etc. for it.

This chapter also mentions events in Leavenworth. Any time they can make the connection between local history and state history is beneficial.