Why Kansas and Missouri Hated Each Other

Mr. Beat tells the story of Bleeding Kansas, the civil war before the Civil War. He also gives a student from the University of Missouri (Quentin Corpuel) a tour of Bleeding Kansas sites.

Check out Quentin's Border War articles here:
https://www.columbiamissourian.com/us...

Uh ok, so this is, like, the description of the video so keep reading. Produced by Matt Beat. Filmed by Shannon Beat , Quentin Corpuel, and Matt Beat. Additional images used under fair use guidelines or found in the public domain. Music by Electric Needle Room (Mr. Beat's band), Bad Snacks, NEFFEX, Kevin MacLeod, Otis McDonald, and Dyalla.

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   • A Brief History of Kansas  
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   • The Life and Times of John Brown  
   • I stood on John Brown's nose  
   • The Caning of Charles Sumner Explained  
   • Kansas and Nebraska Compared  
   • Why Kansas City is (Mostly) in Missouri  
   • Quantrill's Raid Explained  

Here's an annotated script with footnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S...

Sources/further reading:
Quantrill’s Revenge: A Comprehensive Tour Guide to William C. Quantrill’s Raid of Lawrence, Kansas by James C. Edwards and Dick Titterington
Purchase here: https://amzn.to/45qNGB2
Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border. University Press of Kansas, 2013 by Jonathan Earle and Diane Mutti Burke
Purchase here: https://amzn.to/4oGV9TV
Bleeding Kansas - Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era. University Press of Kansas, 2004
Goodrich, Thomas by Nicole Etheson
Purchase here: https://amzn.to/47ysavl
(1992). Bloody Dawn: The Story of the Lawrence Massacre. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press. pp. 4–6.
Pringle, Heather (April 2010). "DIGGING THE SCORCHED EARTH". Archaeology. 63 (2): 21.
Reece, Richard. Bleeding Kansas. ABDO Publishing, 2012.
http://www.thecivilwarmuse.com/index....
https://civilwaronthewesternborder.or...
https://freedomsfrontier.org/tours/qu...
https://www.kansashistory.gov/kansape...
https://lecomptonkansas.com/learn/ter...
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1986...
https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/bleed...
https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/kansa...
https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/new-e...
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http://www.civilwaronthewesternborder...
https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/battl...
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6...
http://www.civilwaronthewesternborder...
http://www.casscountyorderno11.com/th...

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When you learn about where the American Civil War got started, most history books will tell you it officially began at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861.

However, you could make the argument that the American Civil War ACTUALLY began in Kansas.