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Nebraska territories

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  • The first treaty between the Oto Tribe and the US government

    The first treaty between the Oto Tribe and the US government

    The first cession of land by Native Americans in Nebraska.
  • Preemption Act of 1841 passed

    Preemption Act of 1841 passed

    permitted squatters to purchase up to 160 acres of land
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act passed

    Kansas-Nebraska Act passed

    a law was passes that made the territories of kansas and Nebraska
  • Period: to

    Civil War

    War between north and south of the US
  • Homestead Act passed

    Homestead Act passed

    A law passed that let settlers could obtain up to 160 acres without cost
  • The Charter for the Transcontinental Railroad passed

    The Charter for the Transcontinental Railroad passed

    built the fist transcontinental railroad.
  • Morrill Act passed

    Morrill Act passed

    a law that granted each state 30,000 acres of public land.
  • Period: to

    Construction of the transcontinental railroad

    building of the railroad.
  • Plum Creek Massacre

    Plum Creek Massacre

    Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians attacked a Denver-bound freight wagon train killing thirteen
  • Sand Creek Massacre

    Sand Creek Massacre

    US Army carried out a surprise attack on a non-combatant encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians
  • Nebraska becomes a State

    Nebraska becomes a State

    Nebraska becomes a State
  • The first Treaty of Fort Laramie

    The first Treaty of Fort Laramie

    United States recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux Reservation
  • The treaty in 1892 between the US government and the Lakota Tribe

    The treaty in 1892 between the US government and the Lakota Tribe

    treaty where Native Americans gave up land to the US