The American West: History, Myth, and Legacy

Bleeding Kansas and Civil War in the West (1x12)

Ausstrahlung: Jan 01, 2017

Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, giving new states the right to decide their relationship with slave labor. Explore how this event led to a period of chronic anarchy and low-level warfare on the frontier, and how the American Civil War played out in the western states and territories.