InNei Chio Dr. Brennan Smith Cors 213 February 9th 2016 German Immigrants Germans present the biggest group of incomers to the American society. Indeed‚ about twenty percent of Americans links their origin to German roots. It should be noted that their immigration was not welcomed in the first decades of American history. For instance‚ one of the founders Benjamin Franklin expressed his disturbing about Germans overrunning American shores. He claimed them being too stupid for learning English that
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The Kansas and Nebraska Act was introduced in 1854 by Senator Stephen A. Douglas. Douglas was a Democrat well liked in the South. He didn’t really care too much about slavery because he was looking toward the development of the new Western country between the Missouri River and California. Specifically‚ he wanted a transcontinental railroad that went through Chicago‚ which was his home town. Building this road would involve grants of public land. The south‚ on the other hand‚ wanted it to go to the
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was a controversial legislation that opened Kansas and Nebraska to white settlement‚ repealed the Compromise of 1850‚ and led opponents to form the Republican party. This piece of legislation was introduced in Congress that revived the issues of the expansion of slavery. The Compromise of 1850 was a series of measures passed by Congress to resolve sectional tensions. Congress admitted California to the Union as a free state. And organize the territories of New Mexico
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northwestern Iowa. The tribe covered land on both sides of the Missouri river from the mouth of the Platte river as far north as the Little bow river in Cedar County located in Iowa. Their territory extended from Yankton South Dakota south to Rulo Nebraska and up to Cedar county Iowa‚ an area of 35‚600‚000 acres. They had villages at Homer and several other locations up and down the Missouri river. Omaha means “upriver people”. The Omaha tribe lived in earth lodges and tipis. In the fall and winter
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Kansas-Nebraska Act The creation of the Kansas-Nebraska Act also known as “Popular Sovereignty” caused major conflict because of the such opposite views of people. The act caused a deeper divide between the South and North‚ lead to the rise of Abraham Lincoln‚ and Bleeding Kansas. Slave owners living in Missouri did not want people to Kansas and Nebraska to become free states and if the Missouri Compromise stayed than both states would become free states‚ because they are both above the longitude
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The Kansas- Nebraska Act was proposed by Stephen Douglas in 1854. This Act stated that the territory of Nebraska would be split into two separate territories‚ Nebraska and Kansas. It also stated the people could vote on whether the territories would have slavery. This Act caused a large controversy between the people in the North and the South of the United States. The Kansas- Nebraska Act was passed only a few years before the Civil War broke out in America. Many people think that the Kansas-Nebraska
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of Jim Burden‚ a fictional character who resembles Cather in a lot of ways. Being born in Virginia but grew up in Nebraska‚ Willa Cather is famous for her works about life on the Great Plains of the Mid-West. This story‚ supposedly written by Jim‚ is set in the stage of westward migration in the mid-late 1800s‚ and tells Jim’s experience as a child growing up in Black Hawk‚ Nebraska. As Cather said in her later years: “that shaggy grass country had gripped me with a passion I have never been able
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in Nebraska have always said that anywhere is better than here. Melanie would be part of that 90%. She has lived here for all her life‚ which sums up to be 18 years. Now look at it from a military child’s perspective. It could be the best place they have ever lived. For Sydney‚ this is the case. Moving from Kansas to Nebraska‚ she struggled to find a place to call "home." But for the both of them‚ they later find out that "home" was with them all along. Kansas is oddly similar to Nebraska in the
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Starkweather homicide David Jacobs 6th Period Contemporary History • Charles Raymond Starkweather (November 24‚ 1938 – June 25‚ • • • • • 1959) Starkweather was born in Lincoln‚ Nebraska He was the third of seven children born to Guy and Helen Starkweather. Starkweather had attended Saratoga Elementary School‚ Everett Junior High School and Lincoln High School in Lincoln. In contrast to his family life‚ Starkweather remembered nothing positive of his time at school.[5] Starkweather was born
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Economic Development District‚ Franklin County ranks last in housing unit counts‚ wage and salary income‚ employer establishments. County population has declined over 34% from 5‚449 in 1960 to 3‚574 in 2000. (Gorman‚ 20) Is the future of Franklin‚ Nebraska a steady decline with an end as a ghost town in the future? Franklin has a chance to reverse this trend with lots of community involvement‚ and by taking immediate action. There are many obstacles in the way of meeting the goal of making our
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