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The first treaty between the Oto Tribe and the US government
The first treaty with the Otos tribe and the united states government for the Otos land. -
Preemption Act of 1841 passed
The Preemption act allowed people living in Nebraska could buy land for $1.25 and up to 160 acres. -
Kansas Nebraska act
The Kansas Nebraska act made Nebraska and Kansas territory's to have government there for the centennial railroad. -
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Civil war
The southern states in the united states left the union and became the confederacy because they wanted to keep slavery around while the north wanted to abolish and get rid of slavery so they fought the union to try to keep slavery. -
Homestead Act passed
It provided up to 160 acres to people that agreed to improve it could and then they could have it. -
The Charter for the Transcontinental Railroad passed
Gave land and loans to start building the Transcontinental Railroad. -
Morrill Act passed
The act set aside land to create collages on. -
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Construction of the transcontinental railroad (timespan)
The united states wanted to build a railroad across the country for faster trail they hired 2 different companies to start at different ends and the more railroads they placed the more land they got. It went from Omaha, Nebraska and end up in Sacramento California. -
Plum Creek Massacre
A group of Cheyenne and Arapaho attacked a Denver bound freight wagon killing 13 men and taking captive Nancy Jane Morton of Sidney Iowa, 9 year old Daniel Marble of Council bluff, Iowa. -
Sand Creek Massacre
The united states carried out a attack on a non combatant encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians by the big sandy creek in southern Colorado, they killed about 160 men, women, and children, including elderly and infirm. -
Nebraska becomes a State
Congress made Nebraska an official state on march1, 1867. -
The first Treaty of Fort Laramie
The united states made black hills a part of the Great Sioux reservation. -
The treaty in 1892 between the US government and the Lakota Tribe
The united states government traded with the Lokota tribe for their land.