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	Nebraska Department of Education
		Nebraska’s score represents the academic skills of three of every four high school graduate in 2004, considering that 77 percent of the state’s graduates were tested compared to 40 percent nationally.
		Nebraska Education Commissioner Doug Christensen said he was extremely pleased that the state’s students continued to score among the top students in the nation and that fl and Hispanic students are scoring higher on national tests, closing the achievement gap with white students.
		Nebraska is one of the top eight states in the percentage of students taking upper level science courses, with 33 percent of all students enrolled in those classes.
	www.nde.state.ne.us /eyesonnebraska (3950 words)

	Kansas-Nebraska Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and opened new lands for settlement.
		The act was designed by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois; it repealed the Missouri Compromise.
		The act itself virtually nullified the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kansas-Nebraska_Act (1170 words)

	Nebraska Department of Insurance
		The Act allows insurers to "reinstate a preexisting provision in a contract for commercial property and casualty insurance that is in force on the date of enactment of this Act and that excludes coverage for acts of terrorism only" if one of two conditions are met.
		Nebraska has a "file and use" law applying to commercial lines rates to which the Act is applicable, except surety, workers compensation and farmowners.
		Nebraska has a prior approval law that applies to farm insurance, but this law is superseded by the Act with regard to rates for terrorism risk insurance coverage.
	www.doi.ne.gov /notices/notice73.htm (1967 words)

	Kansas-Nebraska Act - MSN Encarta
		Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), U.S. law authorizing the creation of Kansas and Nebraska, west of the states of Missouri and Iowa and divided by the 40th parallel.
		It repealed a provision of the Missouri Compromise (1820) that had prohibited slavery in the territories north of 36° 30', and stipulated that the inhabitants of the territories should decide for themselves the legality of slaveholding.
		The passage of the act caused a realignment of the major U.S. political parties and greatly increased tension between North and South in the years before the American Civil War.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761569036/Kansas-Nebraska_Act.html (318 words)

	Getting the Message Out! Pivotal Events: The Kansas-Nebraska Act
		By Michael F. Holt, Ph.D. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, which was signed into law in May 1854, reignited the sectional conflict over slavery extension that many people believed had been settled permanently by the Compromise of 1850.
		Douglas introduced the bill primarily to encourage settlement in, and the construction of a railroad line to the Pacific coast across, that area, for no land could be legally sold or land grants given to railroads until it was formally organized.
		Indeed, the language of the act was even more explicit than the earlier legislation had been that it was the residents of the territories themselves who would make the decision on slavery.
	dig.lib.niu.edu /message/ps-kansasnebraska.html (430 words)

	The US50 - A guide to the state of Nebraska - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Western Nebraska was under the control of the horse-riding, buffalo-hunting, semi-nomadic groups of the Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Potawatome.
		The Homestead Act of 1862 allowed settlers to claim 160 acres of land free in eastern Nebraska and statehood was granted on March 1, 1867, in a proclamation signed by President Andrew Johnson.
		The Kincaid Act increased the size of the homesteads from 160 to 640 acres.
	www.theus50.com /nebraska/history.shtml (819 words)

	Nebraska Territory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Nebraska Territory was a historic organized territory of the United States from May 30, 1854 until March 1, 1867 when Nebraska became the 37th U.S. state.
		It was established by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
		March 2, 1861: Dakota Territory took all of the portions of Nebraska Territory north of 43° N (the present-day Nebraska-South Dakota border), along with the portion of present-day Nebraska between 43° N and the Keya Paha and Niobrara rivers (this land would be returned to Nebraska in 1882).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nebraska_Territory (475 words)

	Lincoln/Net: The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Rise of the Republican Party, 1854-1856
		In that act Illinois' Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas had attempted to organize the vast Nebraska territory for settlement and the passage of a transcontinental railroad.
		Douglas framed the bill with the idea that the people of Nebraska and Kansas should decide for themselves whether they wished to permit slavery, a doctrine he called "popular sovereignty." He hoped that local control could remove slavery from the national political stage, where it had become a disruptive issue.
		The act also roused Abraham Lincoln by paving the way for the extension of slavery, a prospect he had long opposed.
	lincoln.lib.niu.edu /biography6text.html (1100 words)

	Nebraska Advantage - Nebraska Advantage Act (LB 312)
		The Nebraska Advantage Act, which replaces legislation that was passed nearly 20 years ago, is more comprehensive to meet the needs of your expanding or relocating business.
		The Nebraska Department of Economic Development and its representatives waive any financial responsibility for the accuracy of these numbers should they be relied upon by anyone outside this State agency.
		The major responsibility of the Nebraska Department of Economic Development is to use the tools and resources provided by the Nebraska Legislature, under the leadership of the governor to grow, diversify and develop the capability of Nebraska’s economy to grow at a pace that enhances the lives of its residents.
	www.nebraskaadvantage.biz /advantageact.htm (713 words)

	Nebraska Guide to Local Hotels, Lodging, Restaurants, Real Estate, Car Rentals and Area Information
		The territory of Nebraska became a state on March 1, 1867.
		An Oto Indian tribe living in the area called the river Nebraska, which means "flat water." No one is sure how Nebraska was chosen over Platte, but most agree it was the better choice.
		Prior to the arrival of European settlers, the plains of the Nebraska territory were filled with wild buffalo.
	www.nebraska.com (234 words)

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		Created as a territory in 1854 in the context of the slavery debate and as part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Nebraska was pro-abolition throughout the Civil War.
		After the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters rushed in to settle Kansas to affect the outcome of the first election held there after the law went into effect.
		The Kansas-Nebraska Act, allowing slavery to be decided by settlers in each territory, had given rise to mass meetings of disenchanted Free-Soilers, Whigs, and Democrats throughout the North.
	www.lycos.com /info/kansas-nebraska-act.html (487 words)

	Kansas Nebraska Act (Bleeding Kansas)
		In 1854, Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which organized the remaining territory acquired in the Louisiana Purchase so that such territories could be admitted to the Union as states.
		Territory north of the 40th parallel was called Nebraska Territory, and territory south of the 40th parallel was called Kansas Territory.
		The most controversial aspect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was that each territory would decide for themselves whether or not to permit slavery.
	www.mrnussbaum.com /history/kansasnebraska.htm (255 words)

	Kansas-Nebraska Act
		Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the land that would become the Kansas and Nebraska Territories had to be free states.
		If Kansas and Nebraska were opened to settlement and became free states per the Missouri Compromise, many white Southerners feared that they would never be able to regain a tie with the North in the Senate.
		In Ohio, the Kansas-Nebraska Act led to the creation of the Fusion Party, the precursor of the Republican Party, in 1854.
	www.ohiohistorycentral.org /entry.php?rec=1476 (752 words)

	The Kansas-Nebraska Act
		The news that such an act was being considered fell like a thunderbolt upon the people of the North.
		Ministers preached against the "Nebraska iniquity," and Douglas was accused of weakly yielding to the South in the hope of winning the presidency.
		A new constitution was then drawn up, and on Jan. 29, 1861, on the eve of the Civil War, Kansas was admitted to the Union as a free state.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/1952/kansas.html (446 words)

	Kansas-Nebraska Act: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)
		The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, allowing slavery in the territory north of the 36° 30´ latitude.
		Introduced by Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois, the Kansas-Nebraska Act stipulated that the issue of slavery would be decided by the residents of each territory, a concept known as popular sovereignty.
		The Senate passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act by a vote 35 to 13 on May 25, 1854.
	www.loc.gov /rr/program/bib/ourdocs/kansas.html (498 words)

	The Kansas-Nebraska Act
		The Kansas-Nebraska act repeal of the ban on slavery in Northern territories galvanized angry opposition.
		Angered by these maneuvers, Southerners informed Douglas that slavery must be permitted in the Nebraska country during the territorial phase Of its organization.
		Both in Chicago and in downstate Illinois be encountered abuse and insult when he tried to defend his course, but he managed to strike home with his argument that it was the extremists on both sides, not himself, who were responsible for the storm of sectionalism.
	www.civilwarhome.com /kansasnebraska.htm (1415 words)

	Kansas Nebraska Act, 1854
		The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act, which spawned "Bleeding Kansas," was another dramatic episode in the struggle between pro- and antislavery advocates.
		Ushered through Congress by Illinois Senator Stephen Douglass, the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which drew the regional line between free and slave states.
		This act permitted the people of each territory to decide the slave issue for themselves.
	www.classbrain.com /artteenst/publish/article_89.shtml (120 words)

	Nebraska Statutes: Nebraska Budget Act/§§13-501-503
		The act shall not apply to proprietary functions of municipalities for which a separate budget has been approved by the city council or village board as provided in the Municipal Proprietary Function Act.
		The Nebraska Budget Act shall not apply to any governing body for any fiscal year in which the governing body will not have a property tax request or receive state aid as defined in section 13-518.
		The act shall not apply to any public power district or public power and irrigation district organized pursuant to Chapter 70, article 6, to any rural power district organized pursuant to Chapter 70, article 8, or to any agency created pursuant to sections 18-2426 to 18-2434.
	www.nlc.state.ne.us /libdev/liblaws/13-500s.html (852 words)

	Kansas-Nebraska Act
		Arguments for the Kansas-Nebraska Act: The Kansas-Nebraska Act is not about slavery; it is simply about allowing the people of the territory to exercise their inherent right of popular sovereignty in determining the future of their territory.
		Nebraska, which remained largely unsettled until after passage of the Homestead Act of 1862, granting free land to settlers, was admitted as a free state in 1867.
		The act signaled to Southerners that they could expand westward in large enough numbers to continue their slave system, as long as they had enough votes to pass legislation.
	www.philwrites.com /H_Kansas_N.htm (4603 words)

	Kansas-Nebraska Act
		On May 30, 1854 the areas of Nebraska and Kansas were territories that wanted to become states.
		As the Kansas-Nebraska Act ended the peace created by the Missouri Compromise, antislavery and proslavery supporters fought and fought over whether Kansas would be a slave state or a free state.
		The Kansas-Nebraska Act caused the Civil War, partly, while it also caused a war of its own called "Bloody Kansas." As soon as it was over, Kansas and Nebraska both became free states.
	library.thinkquest.org /J0112391/kansas-nebraska_act.htm (488 words)

	Kansas-Nebraska Act
		He sponsored the Kansas Nebraska bill and said that the question of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska would be left to the vote of the settlers.
		The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a bill that, like the Compromise of 1850, dealt with the problem of slavery in new territories.
		The north wanted the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to become free states because the north didn’t depend on slaves to do their work.
	library.thinkquest.org /CR0215469/kansas-nebraska_act.htm (832 words)

	Nebraska News
		Nebraska's unemployment rate rose slightly in November, according to a report issued Friday by the state Department of Labor.
		Nebraska among top 10 highest tax burden states Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman unveiled a tax-cut plan Thursday he says is targeted at the middle class and would provide more than $1 billion of tax relief over...
		Nebraska's 49 state senators were asked the following question about the state's new tough-on-meth law and prison expansion: A new tough-on-meth law could more than double the rate of growth of Nebraska's...
	www.topix.net /state/ne (712 words)

	Kansas-Nebraska Act - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), U.S. law authorizing the creation of Kansas and Nebraska, west of the states of Missouri and Iowa and divided by the...
		In 1854 Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois introduced a bill to organize the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, thus opening these areas to...
		The compromise became precedent for settling subsequent North-South disagreements over slavery and tariff issues, and it remained in effect until...
	encarta.msn.com /Kansas-Nebraska_Act.html (212 words)

	Nebraska State Historic Preservation Office
		The mission of the State Historic Preservation Office is to promote the preservation and enhancement of the cultural resources of the state of Nebraska.
		Since the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 the governor of each state has been required to appoint a State Historic Preservation Officer to oversee preservation efforts mandated by the 1966 Act.
		In Nebraska, the director of the Nebraska State Historical Society serves as State Historic Preservation Officer.
	www.nebraskahistory.org /histpres (291 words)

	Kansas-Nebraska Act
		Kansas and Nebraska were important areas for growing wheat, corn, oats and rye and were therefore popular places for migrants from the eastern areas of American to settle.
		In 1868 in Lancaster County, Nebraska, two children, seven and eight and a half years old, wandered out to where their brother was herding cattle.
		The principal article of fuel found on the frontier for cooking the meat of the buffalo was the dried excrement of the animal, known in early Kansas and Nebraska parlance as "buffalo chips." The buffalo was one of the noblest of all animals.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USASkansas.htm (1647 words)

	Nebraska Department of Agriculture - Beginning Farmer Tax Credit Act
		Revisions: This Act was revised during the 2001 session of the Nebraska Legislature.
		The federal credit for prior year minimum tax, after the recomputations required by the Nebraska Revenue Act of 1967, and the credit provided in section 77-27,222 shall be allowed as a reduction in the income tax due.
		The fiduciary shall be responsible for making the return for the estate or trust for which he or she acts, whether the income be taxable to the estate or trust or to the beneficiaries thereof.
	www.agr.state.ne.us /regulate/med/actbi.htm (3475 words)

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