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	Kansas-Nebraska Act
		Territory north of the 40th parallel was called Nebraska Territory, and territory south of the 40th parallel was called Kansas Territory.
		This act granted self-determination to the citizens of the new territory on the question of slavery.
		For this reason, almost all of the newspapers in the territory took a stance that was clear to the reader of whether the paper was for or against slavery.
	www.lycos.com /info/kansas-nebraska-act.html (697 words)

	Nebraska - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		The Nebraska Territory comprised a vast region bordered on the north by the 49th parallel (the Canadian frontier) and on the south by the 40th parallel (just north of Kansas) and extended from the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains.
		Nebraska enacted a direct primary for the nomination of political candidates, and in 1912, George W. Norris, a Republican who also believed in an active government, was elected to the first of his five successive terms in the U.S. Senate.
		Nebraska’s State Council of Defense was given broad powers of investigation to ensure uniform support for the war and created an atmosphere of persecution for German Americans and those who opposed the war or expressed radical political views.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761561370___77/Nebraska.html (5109 words)

	Nebraska Territory
		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.
		February 28, 1861 : Colorado Territory took portions of the territory south of 41° N and west of 102°03' W (25° W of Washington, DC) (an area that includes present-day Fort Collins, Greeley and the portions of Boulder north of Baseline Drive.
		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).
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Nebraska_Territory (512 words)

	NEBRASKA HISTORY
		The Nebraska Territory's boundaries extended from the 40th parallel of the Canadian border and from the Missouri River to the Continental Divide, including parts of present-day Montana, North and South Dakota, Wyoming and Colorado, as well as Nebraska.
		During Nebraska's early territorial days, settling the countryside, land and currency laws, the proposed transcontinental railroad, the capital's location, the rivalry between north and south regions of the Platte River, the Republican Party formation and the defeat of the first efforts to make Nebraska a state were the prevalent issues of the time.
		The territories population grew 2,732 in November 1854 to 28,841 in 1860.
	www.minerland.net /nebraska.htm (3861 words)

	Nebraska Territory - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
		In 1861, the newly-organized Colorado Territory took a portion of the territory that forms present-day Colorado north of the 40th parallel and east of the continental divide, including present-day Fort Collins and Greeley, as well as Boulder north of Baseline Drive.
		The territory was granted a small portion of the Washington Territory in present-day southwestern Wyoming west of the continental divide.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Nebraska_Territory (392 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.
		February 28, 1861: Colorado Territory took portions of the territory south of 41° N and west of 102°03' W (25° W of Washington, DC) (an area that includes present-day Fort Collins, Greeley and the portions of Boulder north of Baseline Drive.
		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)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Montana Territory
		The territory was organized out of the existing Idaho Territory by Act of Congress and signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 28, 1864.
		The territory also included a portion of the Idaho Territory west of the continental divide and east of the Bitteroot Range, which had been acquired by the United States in the Oregon Treaty, and originally included in the Oregon Territory.
		The Continental Divide is a sharp climatic boundary between the modified N Pacific maritime climate in a narrow strip of territory to the W and the cold continental climate of the E part of the state.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Montana-Territory (969 words)

	Kansas Territory Information
		The original borders of the territory from were the Missouri border to the summit of the Rocky Mountain range; the southern boundary was the 37th parallel, the northern was the 40th parallel.
		The emigration from the free states flowed into the territory, and settlements were made at various points, too scattered and remote from each other to attract either the attention or the enmity of the pro-slavery partisans, as at Lawrence.
		The first territorial appointments, looking to the inauguration of a local government, under the provisions of the organic law, were made in June and July, 1854.
	www.bookrags.com /Kansas_Territory (1011 words)

	Lincoln, Nebraska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lincoln is the capital of Nebraska and is the county seat of Lancaster County.
		The capital of Nebraska Territory had been Omaha since the creation of the territory in 1854; however, most of the territory's population lived south of the Platte River.
		After much of the territory south of the Platte considered annexation to Kansas, the legislature voted to move the capital south of the river and as far west as possible.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lincoln,_Nebraska (2415 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Wyoming Territory was an organized territory of the United States that existed from 1868 until its admission to the Union as the State of Wyoming in 1890.
		Portions of the territory which eventually fell under Wyoming's jurisdiction were at various points associated with Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Dakota, Nebraska and Utah, and had previously belonged to the independent states of Great Britain, France, Spain, Mexico, and Texas.
		The portion of the Wyoming Territory east of the continental divide was acquired by the U.S. in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase and organized into the Nebraska Territory in 1854.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Wyoming_Territory (432 words)

	Colorado Territory Information
		The territory was organized in the wake of the 1859 Colorado Gold Rush, which had brought the first large concentration of white settlement to the region.
		The territory was organized out of lands in the Rockies on both sides of the continental divide and incorporating the area of the Pikes Peak gold rush that had begun two years previously.
		East of the divide, the new territory included the western portion of the Kansas Territory, as well as much of the southwestern Nebraska Territory, and an irregular parcel of the northern New Mexico Territory at the headwaters of the Rio Grande.
	www.bookrags.com /Colorado_Territory (1493 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		NEBRASKA, one of the West North Central states of the U.S., bounded on the N by South Dakota, on the E by Iowa and Missouri, on the S by Kansas, on the SW by Colorado, and on the W by Wyoming.
		Nebraska, with an area of 200,358 sq km (77,358 sq mi), is the 16th largest state in the U.S.; 1.1% of the land area is owned by the federal government.
		Nebraska also remains heavily dependent on its increasingly mechanized agriculture, although this aspect of the economy was dealt a serious blow by the flooding of the Missouri and other rivers of the Midwest in 1993.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/states/nebraska.html (3203 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Nebraska
		Nebraska's farm output for 1909 is extraordinary, when we recollect how recently this territory was part of the desert and so designated on the maps.
		French relinquished all this territory to Spain, but it was receded to France in 1800; finally in 1803 under the name of Louisiana Territory, it passed by purchase into the possession of the United States.
		Nebraska district in Congress in 1886 and in 1888 was the unsuccessful candidate for governor in opposition to General John M. Thayer.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10729b.htm (3818 words)

	Nebraska Territory - Definition, explanation
		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.
		In 1861, the newly-organized Colorado Territory took a portion of the territory that forms present-day Colorado north of the 40th parallel and east of the continental divide, including present-day Fort Collins and Greeley, as well as Boulder north of Baseline Drive.
		The territory was granted a small portion of the Washington Territory in present-day southwestern Wyoming west of the continental divide.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/n/ne/nebraska_territory.php (618 words)

	mrnussbaum.com - Mexican War
		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.
		Not surprisingly, the area became a battleground for both sides, and the resulting violence led the territory to be referred to as "Bleeding Kansas", and was one of the first major causes of the Civil War.
	www.mrnussbaum.com /kansasnebraska.htm (215 words)

	Bleeding Kansas
		Douglas was firmly committed to ensuring that the terminal would be in Chicago, but he knew that it could not be unless the Nebraska territory was organized.
		Nebraska was so far north that its future as a free state was never in question.
		In 1856 the proslavery territorial capital was moved to Lecompton, a town only 12 miles from Lawrence, a Free State stronghold.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part4/4p2952.html (1284 words)

	THE NEGROES OF NEBRASKA - The Negro Becomes A Citizen
		In the State of Nebraska Negroes, as citizens of the United States of America, are entitled to the rights and privileges accorded the citizens of all races.
		It was finally passed and enacted, and by the terms of the Organic Act the Territory of Nebraska was admitted to the Union in 1854.
		Nebraska applied for admission to the Union as a State in 1866, and was actually voted in by Congress.
	www.memoriallibrary.com /NE/Ethnic/Negro/citizen.htm (1012 words)

	Compendium of History, Reminiscence & Biography of NEBRASKA
		Governor Burt reached the territory, in ill health, on the 6th of October, 1854, and proceeded to Bellevue, where lie was the guest of Rev. Wm.
		This county would have included the southernmost section of the territory from sixty miles west of the Missouri river westward, from the north corner of Richardson county as then established along the Platte, to the one hundred and third degree of west longitude, thence along the southwest boundary of Richardson county.
		At this time the territory contained hundreds of would-be settlers who were temporarily debarred from becoming legal citizens and at the same time owners of the lands of their choice because at that period the public domain was not fully in the market.
	www.rootsweb.com /~neresour/OLLibrary/Comp_NE/cmp0050.htm (2805 words)

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		Nebraska made it 14-7 with 4:37 left in the half, turning an interception thrown by Thompson into a three-play scoring drive that took 33 seconds.
		Nebraska came into the game averaging 183.2 yards per game on the ground and finished with 21 carries for 84 yards (4 ypc).
		Nebraska had five possessions in Oklahoma territory in the second half and was shut on all of them.
	www.wwltv.com /sharedcontent/dws/spt/colleges/big12/stories/120306dnspobig12date.33211c2.html (696 words)

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		Nebraska's fossil beds and glacial deposits show that it once was the bed of an inland sea that was later elevated above water.
		The Nebraska Territory's boundaries extended from the 40th parallel of the Canadian border and from the Missouri River to the Continental Divide, including parts of present-day Montana, North and South Dakota, Wyoming and Colorado, as well as Nebraska.
		During Nebraska's early territorial days, settling the countryside, land and currency laws, the proposed transcontinental railroad, the capital's location, the rivalry between north and south regions of the Platte River, the Republican Party formation and the defeat of the first efforts to make Nebraska a state were the prevalent issues of the time.
	info.neded.org /stathand/parttwo/nehist5y.html (3274 words)

	AllAboutOmaha.com - Copyright © 1996-2006 RSS. - Nebraska History
		Nebraska is one of the states from the Great Plains area of the Midwest claimed by both France and Spain.
		In the year 1842 (several years before Nebraska was a territory), Lieutenant John C. Frémont led an expedition to explore the area between the Kansas River and the Platte River.
		The Nebraska territory was admitted as the 37th state in 1867 as a slave-free state.
	www.allaboutomaha.net /Omaha/NebraskaHistory.htm (1313 words)

	Nebraska During the Civil War, and The Lincolns on NET
		In the West, the Nebraska Territory actually consisted of a few squatters' cabins and ferry boats along the Missouri River, a few civilians around Fort Kearney, an actual settlement at Bellevue and a series of land claims known as Omaha.
		As the first Territorial Legislature was organized, there were four counties organized north of the river, Burt, Washington, Dodge and Douglas.
		Nebraska ranked second among the territories in the number of men in the Union Army.
	net.unl.edu /newsFeat/lincolns/kansasnebraska2.html (673 words)

	Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln, Abraham. 1897. Political Debates Between Lincoln and Douglas
		Let him consider, not only what work the machinery is adapted to do, and how well adapted, but also let him study the history of its construction, and trace, if he can, or rather fail, if he can, to trace the evidences of design, and concert of action, among its chief architects, from the beginning.
		This point is made in order that individual men may fill up the Territories with slaves, without danger of losing them as property, and thus to enhance the chances of permanency to the institution through all the future.
		Auxiliary to all this, and working hand in hand with it, the Nebraska doctrine, or what is left of it, is to educate and mould public opinion, at least Northern public opinion, not to care whether slavery is voted down or voted up.
	www.bartleby.com /251/1001.html (2229 words)

	Where is the Nebraska Territory?
		With the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, a territory was created that stretched all the way north from the southern boundary of present-day Nebraska to include all of the remaining lands of the Louisiana Purchase.
		In 1863 the Idaho Territory was created, and it absorbed all of the land west of the 127th Meridian.
		But even this final territory was almost torn into two additional parts as a conflict developed between the settlers living north of the Platte and those living south of the Platte.
	www.nebraskastudies.org /0500/stories/0502_0101.html (334 words)

	Nebraska
		The Nebraska Territory was formed in 1854 at the same time as the Kansas Territory.
		Nebraska was admitted into the Union in 1867 as the 37th state.
		Although Omaha was the territorial capital, Lincoln, named in honor of the 16th president, is the state capital.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/es/ne (117 words)

	Kansas-Nebraska Bill - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912
		But the territory embraced by it was so small, and the change was made merely to give better definition to the Missouri boundaries, that no serious objection was made to the act by the free-state members of Congress.
		The first real effort in Congress to organize a territory including the present State of Kansas was made on Dec. 13, 1852, when Willard P. Hall, a member from Missouri, introduced a bill providing for the organization of the "Territory of Platte," to include all the present states of Kansas and Nebraska.
		Section 22 provided for a territorial legislature, composed of thirteen members of a council, to be elected for two years, and twenty-six representatives, to be elected for one year, the legislature to have power to increase the number of members in each branch in proportion to the increase in the number of qualified voters.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1912/k/kansas-nebraska_bill.html (1583 words)

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