Nebraska

lands. This desire to expand slavery and to expand white culture westward would bring up the long silenced issue of slavery. While westward expansion sparked the talk of slavery, events such as the Mexican War, Compromise of 1850, the Kansas and Nebraska Act, and the Election of 1860 would eventually lead to the Civil War. Produced by westward expansion, the Mexican War would eventually put a spotlight the issue of slavery and put even more pressure on the nation. While President Polk’s…

On May 13, 1846, after President James K. Polk requested to declare war on Mexico due to their “invasion” of America land. Two days later the congress approved the request and officially declared war. The Mexican War of 1846 determined the destiny of America afterwards. The Mexican war resulted the acquiring amount of land in the southwest of America today. Thus came with the debate of which state should gain lands which reflects the sectional interests of different regions of America. The…

During the 19th century the United States had for the first time citizens that learned about the revolutionary war, and the first time in American history that the nation was divided on an issue that seemed to impact many. Slavery was an issue consistently debated in the late 1840’s until reconstruction. As the United States began to expand westward the debate of whether new states would enter the Union as a slave or free state. This debate almost brought the young nation to its knees. Henry…

example The civil war, the Louisiana purchase, and the Texas revolution. These three things among others changed the United States hugely. In 1776 the United States was just the 13 colonies but over the years the United States expanded to Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Texas. The population changed as well from 2,148,100 in 1776 to 38,558,371 in 1870. Lots of things about the United States changed. The Louisiana purchase is another thing that changed the United States. The Louisiana purchase…

In New Hope, Nebraska, in late May, Emma Sanders, a widowed grandmother, who is disconnected with her family, finds a small boy, about five years old, sitting alone at the park. In the small town of New Hope, everyone knows each other, no one knows who this child was. Emma takes the young boy into her care, and discovers that he is mute. Due to Emma’s old age, she allows another family in the church, Brian and Amy, custody of the child. This family names the mute child, Davey. Before he arrives…

The Dust Bowl was a drought that strickened the Southern PLains region of the united states.They suffered from severe dust storms that had severe high winds. The choking dust swept the region from Texas to Nebraska. Many people were killed from this tragic disaster. The Dust Bowl also killed the livestock and it had also failed crops across the entire region. This disaster drove many families on a desperate migration for search of work and better living conditions. Roughly 7,000 people died due…

laws regarding slavery” while the North “condemned it for acquiescing in the expansion of slavery” into the newly expanding nation. Though it did keep the peace in the fragile nation for over thirty years, it was eventually overturned by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of…

The creation of Eli Whitney revolutionized America and changed the way people valued others. The cotton-gin was a machine that removed the seeds from the cotton about fifty times faster than a slave per day. The cotton-gin mostly affected the eastern-southern part of America because of the large cotton farms. From 1800 to 1820 annual cotton production quadrupled and unfortunately the amount of slaves increased as well. In thirty years (1800 - 1830) the number of slaves doubled being 2 million.…

Jim and Antonia both learned an abundance through their adventures but one learned a lot more through education than the other. In the story, both Antonia and Jim both went down two different paths. Jim went down a path of education and Antonia learned more from her life lessons. When Jim turned 13 he realized he should be attending school. “ I was now thirteen they thought I ought to be going to school”. When Jim noticed he needed to go to school he started going right away. Soon…

Fremont, Nebraska is the place I call home right now, but my heart will always be in San Antonio, Texas. Coming from a very large city and transitioning to a city is very difficult. Fremont and San Antonio are two completely different cities. San Antonio is a very up beat city while Fremont is a very low-key city. There is a population of roughly four million people in San Antonio, and there is only twenty-six thousand one-hundred in Fremont. There are a lot of things I love about San Antonio…