Jesse Woodson James is an American Legend. He is known for bank robberies and crimes committed in the American Midwest in the ate 1800s. for the killings he committed and for the terror he created, his reputation grew. But his younger life is less well known. He grew up on a farm in Missouri as a part of a slave-holding family. His brother Frank liked Jesse and was his role model; everything Frank did, Jesse tried to imitate. During the Civil War, the two brothers would join the WashBuckers Guerrilla fighters, and here they would start their violent history. That violence would grow into their next big move   - bank robberies! Although he was a known criminal due to a combination of bad influences, bad experiences, and national publicity.

      Jesse James was always part of the guerrilla fighters in the pre-Civil War Struggle in Kansas. Bleeding Kansas was a big Factor in Jesse’s life. Jesse had his mom taken away from him which was also a big factor in Jesses growing fury against the confederate Army. Jesse Brother, Frank who Jesse looked up to signed up with William Quantrill the leader of the Bushwhackers militia who brainwashed Jesse which played an important role in Jesse’s life. These three problems ked Jesse into doing horrible things in his life, but what where they all  his fault?       

     Most of the people in “Bleeding Kansas” were on the pro slavery side of the war because most of the people in Kansas were farmers and relied and depended on slaves to do mostly all of the farming and agriculture work such as keeping the barn clean and ploughing the field for agricultural foods and slaughtering the live stock for food, these there were many more chores . Due to the shortage of farms in the city only a few slaves were needed to do work because slaves were not needed or not able (in the slave owners eyes) to do such work such as maintaining a factory or keeping track of the ships coming in and out of the harbours or evening commanding the ships but were usually cleaning the ships and cleaning the factory and taking out the trash. Life was very different in the city compared to life in the south. The people in the city did not need as much slaves and realized that they were treated horribly for not even doing that man chores and the regular people could manage to do all the slaves work with out needing a slaves help but it was much different in the farm where if you got rid of the slaves it would be tragic for the farmers because they would have to hire workers and maintain a farm would be much more costly and thus the civil war began between the South and the Confederates.