Nebraska Territory Timeline

By delaney.plate@centuraps.org
  • The first treaty between the Oto Tribe and the US government

    The first treaty between the Oto Tribe and the US government

    This gave the US some land and moved the Oto tribe to a different area. They gave the Oto some supplies and some mills.
  • Preemption Act of 1841 passed

    Preemption Act of 1841 passed

    People could buy the land that they were living on already.
  • Kansas-Nebraksa Act passed

    Kansas-Nebraksa Act passed

    This act repealed the Missouri Compromise and created two new territories and allowed for popular sovereignty. Proslavery and antislavery people went to both Kansas and Nebraska to make it either proslavery or antislavery
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    Civil War

    This is a war between the North and South of the USA. The cause for the war is that the North did not want slavery to spread to the new land, while the South wanted slavery to spread.
  • Homestead Act Passed

    Homestead Act Passed

    This act was made to develop the American west and spur economic growth. This provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land.
  • The Charter for the Transcontinental Railroad passed

    The Charter for the Transcontinental Railroad passed

    This act provided Federal government support for the building of the first transcontinental railroad, which was completed on May 10, 1869.
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    Construction of the transcontinental railroad

    They made this railroad to help with mail and passengers to get form side to side.
  • Sand Creek Massacre

    Sand Creek Massacre

    U. S. Army carried out a surprise attack on a non-combatant encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians along the Big Sandy Creek in southeastern Colorado, killing about 160 men, women, and children.
  • Plum Creek Massacre

    Plum Creek Massacre

    A war party of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians attacked a Denver-bound freight wagon train killing thirteen men.
  • Nebraska becomes a state

    Nebraska becomes a state

    The Nebraska territory grew very fast because people from the North and from the South were coming there to make that state a free state, or a slavery state.
  • The first Treaty of Fort Laramie

    The first Treaty of Fort Laramie

    This is where the United States recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux Reservation, set aside for exclusive use by the Sioux people.
  • Morrill Act passed

    Morrill Act passed

    The Morrill Act had set aside federal lands to create colleges to “benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts.”
  • The treaty in 1892 between the US government and the Lakota Tribe

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

    To bring peace between the whites and the Sioux who agreed to settle within the Black Hills reservation in the Dakota Territory.