little town of North Platte (The North Platte Canteen‚ Nebraska Studies.Org‚ Statistic Brain). One young lady‚ Rae Wilson‚ wrote a letter to the editor in the local newspaper about the soldiers at the train station. This tiny article caused this amazing organization to take place (Letter to the Editor). She then banded together the most influential people in North Platte on December 22‚ 1941 and started the canteen three days later (Nebraska Studies.Org). Mrs. Wilson and the town of North Platte
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for each mile of track that was laid in the West as further incentive. Overall‚ 131 million acres of land was given to support the transcontinental railroad. This railroad allowed Americans to branch out further in the West and would connect from Nebraska to California. These incentives started a boom of railroad building between the two companies. Once the financing for this endeavor was secured the Union Pacific and Central Pacific began construction and this employed some 20‚000 workers at one
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was massacred at Sand Creek in 1864. Even though he continued to seek peace‚ he was killed with the remainder of his tribe in the Wichita Valley of Oklahoma in 1868. Red Cloud Red Cloud (1822-1909) was born near the Platte River in present-day Nebraska. Because of his intelligence‚ strength‚ and bravery‚ he became the chief of the Oglala Sioux. “Red Cloud’s War” took place between 1865 and 1868. These battles forced the closing of the Bozeman Trail and the signing of the Fort Laramie Treaty in
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electoral votes for that state. Basically‚ if the candidate wins more votes in let’s say California‚ that candidate will win all 55 of its electoral votes. Each state’s electoral vote is decided using the winner takes all system except Maine and Nebraska. In these two states proportional representation is how electoral votes are decided. The electoral votes in these states are allocated per congressional district; the two remaining senatorial based votes are determined by majority vote. In Maine
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The electoral college is a very intricate and lengthy system the United States has in place to designate the resulting president. This is a system our founding fathers came up with when developing the country and a system that has been in place for centuries. And although this is a system people know and are accustom to‚ there is much surrounding controversy. Many people feel this is an ineffective method of selecting the president‚ while others feel that it works just fine. The Electoral College
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It was not until after the Civil War‚ however‚ that a permanent railroad bridge was constructed across the Ohio River. After the Civil War‚ the pace of railroad building increased. The Pacific railroads‚ the Union Pacific building from Omaha‚ Nebraska‚ and the Central Pacific building from Sacramento‚ California‚ had started to build a transcontinental railroad during the war to help promote national unity. They were joined at Promontory‚ Utah‚ on May 10‚ 1869‚ completing the first
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Alleghenies. It was not until after the Civil War‚ however‚ that a permanent railroad bridge was constructed across the Ohio River. After the Civil War‚ the pace of railroad building increased. The Pacific railroads‚ the Union Pacific building from Omaha‚ Nebraska‚ and the Central Pacific building from Sacramento‚ California‚ had started to build a transcontinental railroad during the war to help promote national unity. They were joined at Promontory‚ Utah‚
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vote on who should become the next leader for our country. All but two of the states in the U.S. run a “winner take all” fashion for how they distribute their Electoral College votes. The two states who do not operate in this manner are Maine and Nebraska‚ who set their electoral votes according to congressional district (Department of State‚ Michigan). The framers of the Constitution sought out to prevent “tyranny of the majority” and to seek a non-mob yet democratic approach to electing its next
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To my understanding‚ and from what I have read in the book and throughout the course links‚ I believe that the intent of the Homestead Act was to defeat land monopoly. Many farmers‚ however‚ lacked the economic means to move west and manage a farm. . By this‚ fewer still understood the new type of agriculture‚ in which technology was used to farm the land that the Great Plains required. Instead‚ speculators and corporate interests were able to reap in profits‚ and fraud and corruption‚ and often
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