-
The first treaty between the Oto Tribe and the US government
The US took land from the Oto with a treaty in southeast Nebraska. -
Preemption Act of 1841 passed
it allowed people who have been living on the land without paying to get 160 acres and pay more than $1.25 dollars an acre before it would get sold. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act passed
It created two new territories and it canceled the Missouri Compromise, it had the people how were living there chose if they would have slavery or not. -
Period: to
Civil War
The Civil War was a war between the northern of the United States and the southern part of the United Sates. -
Homestead Act passed
People could get 160 acres of land if they would agree to farm it. They had to be head of household, $10 fee, 21 years or older. -
The Charter for the Transcontinental Railroad passed
Lincoln had chose Omaha to be the western start for the Union Pacific railroad. -
Morrill Act passed
The law was passed and it created colleges, but they had to teach agriculture and engineering. -
Period: to
Construction of the transcontinental railroad
It connected the eastern and the western united states. -
Plum Creek Massacre
Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians attacked a freight wagon train they killed a lot of people. -
Sand Creek Massacre
The US army surprise attacked Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians at Big Sandy Creek in southeastern Colorado killing about 160 people. -
Nebraska becomes a State
Nebraska was the 37th state to enter the union. -
The first Treaty of Fort Laramie
The US saw the black hills as a part of the Great Sioux Reservation and that only the Sioux could use it. -
The treaty in 1892 between the US government and the Lakota Tribe
The US took land from the Lakota with a treaty in northwest Nebraska.