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Nebraska History Review
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Nebraska History
- President Thomas Jefferson bought the land
from France.
- Cost $15,000,000
- More than doubled the size of the U.S.
- Nebraska became part of the U.S. because of the Louisiana Purchase.
Landforms Bodies of Water
- Missouri River
- Niobrara River
- Platte River
- Lake C. W. McConaughy
- Lewis and Clark Lake
- Ogallala Aquifer
- Sandhills
- Till Plains
- Great Plains
- High Plains
- The Badlands
- Chimney Rock
- Courthouse Rock
Homestead Act of 1863
"Sodbusters"
Weather
- Almost anyone could claim 160 acres of land if they:
-were 21 years old or the head of a family
-live on the land for five years
-build a house and make improvements to the land
- People who came to Nebraska for free land were called "homesteaders”.
- DANIEL FREEMAN was the first homesteader in Nebraska.
- Sodbusters were homesteaders that built their first homes out of sod.
- Sod is thick dirt, grass, and grass roots.
- Tornadoes
- Blizzards
- Drought
- Floods
Famous Nebraskans
Louisiana Purchase
PETER SARPY –
- Built a trading post
- Ran a ferry boat across the Missouri River.
- Married Nicomi, the daughter of the Omaha
- Tribe’s Chief.
J. STERLING MORTON –
- Founder of Arbor Day in 1872
EDWARD CREIGHTON –
- Brought the first telegraph lines to
Omaha
- Wanted to start a college, so his wife left money to start
Creighton University when dies the year after her husband passed away.
GEORGE NORRIS –
- Gained support for Nebraska’s unique state
legislature, Unicameral.
- It means one-house.
- It is unique because Nebraska is the only state with a one house legislature.
STANDING BEAR –
- First Native American to win a court case
against the U.S. government.
- Judge ruled, “an Indian is a person
with in the meaning of the law.
Task
Native American Groups
Ethnic Groups
Natural Resources Economic Goods
- Omaha Tribe
- Pawnee Tribe
- Ponca Tribe
- Arapaho Tribe
- Cheyenne Tribe
- Lakota – Sioux Tribe
- Otoe – Missouri Tribe
- Czech
- Swedish
- Spainish
- French
- German
- Irish
- Italian
- Polish
- Beef/Pork
- Tourism
- Kool-aid
- Insurance
- Food Processing
- Corn
- Soybeans
- Water
- Soil
- Wheat
- Grasses
- Limestone
- Clay
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