Nebraska

The Great Kansas Nebraska Act. The Topic I have reseached for this project is the Kansas Nebraska act of 1854. This is a huge turning point in America history because this act was the cauase of many issues and problem that led to the Civil War. The Kansas Nebraska is also significant since it led to the first time American was officially divided into slave states and non-slave states based on the people in the state. The Kansas Nebraska act was the beganing of the end of the slavery in the…

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was proposed in 1854 and solidified decisions that were made in the past four years. This Act declared Kansas and Nebraska the decision to choose to allow slavery within their borders or not. It also overturned agreements made in the Missouri Compromise, such as the invisible latitudinal line that prohibited…

“I said to myself, ‘If I put everything toward gymnastics and every moment in the gym was spent well, then I could do it.’” Kocks knew where he wanted to be, and he knew he wanted to be at Nebraska, but he said he had to commit everything to reach that goal. I said to myself, ‘How great am I able to become?’” Kocks said his coaches “put a little spark into him.” They would constantly say he had the potential to be an All-American on rings; Kocks just didn’t really understand how. It was at that…

are many symbols in Cather’s novel that tell a lot about the character and the meanings of their lives. The landscape in Nebraska is one of the most important symbols in the novel and mainly symbolizes Jim’s character. Throughout the novel the landscape describes his feelings, his relationship with people, his present and his past. His strong feelings about the landscape in Nebraska stay with him even when he moves away to become a lawyer. When the landscape is empty with no trees, animals or…

Antonia is willing to take risks that he is not. WRITING ASSIGNMENT 2: Write a 250-word formal essay, correctly citing all reference materials in APA format, on this topic: "Pioneer Living Conditions in Nineteenth-Century Nebraska" Pioneer living conditions in nineteenth century Nebraska was not particularly an easy life. They valued hard work, self-reliance, and the refusal to submit to adversity. Many people lived in sod houses with dirt floors. Although the floors were not always ideals, with…

feelings, foreshadows events changes, and past memories. Jim, just one particular character made many connections with the Nebraska landscape. Willa Cather the first child of a farm family was in born Virginia in 1873. At the age of nine, Cather moved to a farm in Nebraska, and then shortly after she moved to town in Red Cloud where she attended college at the University of Nebraska at LIncoln. She wrote frequent articles for magazines companies. Out of college she was a high school…

California would be a free or a slave state. Congress finally reached agreed to the Compromise of 1850, admitting California as a free state but also gave the South a much stronger Fugitive Slave Act. The Changes made to the Fugitive Slave Act, the Kansas-Nebraska…

get married? Most of the Pawnee people are found in Nebraska and Kansas. We are going to be talking about the Pawnee location , tradition, and facts of life. The Pawnee People were mostly located in Nebraska And Kansas, they lived in houses called Earthern houses. These are hut type houses they made out of large logs and covered but dried grass or other type of bushes. The Pawnee people were moved from there reservation in Oklahoma to Nebraska and Kansas were they live today. In the 18th…

written by Willa Cather. Willa Cather won the Pulitzer Prize for more than fifteen books. Cather was said to be one of the most remarkable writers in America during the early twentieth century. The story of My Antonia is set on the wide open plains of Nebraska. The story takes place in the late 1880s to the 1920s. The setting of how the characters are traveling by train, using horse and wagon to travel around gives the reader a pretty good idea that this was set in early years. Also, in the book…

businesses that sell alcohol and a 10 percent tax on alcohol purchases. A group of retailers sued in federal court in 2007, arguing they weren’t subject to the tribe’s regulations because the land is not part of the Omaha Reservation in the northeast Nebraska. In the 1800's, the Omaha Tribal people were suffering from diseases such as small pox. (Case File number 4:07-cv-03101)Attacks from neighboring tribes pushed the Omaha Tribe farther into despair. The results were detrimental, half of the…