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    signed in the 1820 's ("Nebraska: Winnebago Reservation - American Indian Relief Council"). With this in mind, most of the land that the tribe had was lost, which forced the Native American people to move five times("Nebraska: Winnebago Reservation - American Indian Relief Council"). The places they moved to included Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota ("Nebraska: Winnebago Reservation - American Indian…

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    my classmate Makayla Westgard interested was the Nebraska State Patrol. For the main reason that Makayla is willing to work this job “is to be studying racial profiling in traffic stops by partnering with University of Nebraska in Omaha” that is really so interesting because the job average salary pay is about $ 34,000 a year plus $13, 600 in benefits (McClatchy, 2009). And along with a life insurance policy with no cost. According to the Nebraska Watchdog.org on web newspapers, March 13, 2015…

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    LINCOLN — As tuition of Nebraska President Hank Bounds reflects on his first yr on the job, he sees an institution that's already very good. Looking forward, he envisions it becoming “pleasant.” And, along the way in which, he hopes to make a difference on the earth. “I suppose the institution of Nebraska has the advantage to be a enormous in higher ed,” Bounds mentioned Thursday in an interview. “and that i’m convinced that that is the case at present, extra now than ever. Not most effective am…

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    Willa Cather’s “A Wagner Matinee” was first published in 1904 and is a short story about a woman, named Georgiana, who finds herself transition from the ecstatic city of Boston, to the primitive Nebraska frontier. Cather’s “A Wagner Matinee” was inspired by Richard Wagner who was a German composer and conductor that lived from 1813 to 1883. He’s well known for his operas and his most famous work is that of “The Flying Dutchman”. Willa Cather, instead, wasn’t a musician but was an author of the…

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    was the first chosen permanent capital city. Thus, the capital should be moved because there are many better alternatives, such as Nebraska. To begin with, Nebraska is a great alternative to Washington, D.C. According to source 2, “Yes”. Let’s Move the Capital to Nebraska! Immediately,” “The actual geographic center of the U.S. is about five miles south of the Nebraska-Kansas border, northwest of the town…

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    Party. Both Lincoln and Stephen speeches’ had a historical explanation of the United States and analysis of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Lincoln speech had some significant on the slavery issue. Those who were defending slavery included economics, religion, legality, and history to further their arguments. Lincoln and Stephen Alexander both delivered speeches about Kansas-Nebraska Act. Stephen in U.S was the architect of legislation which stated that it was of choice for settlers in the new…

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    Fort Sumter Causes

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    the battle of Fort Sumter is the first official battle of The Civil War as long as you're going by the true definition of battle, ‘a sustained fight between large, organized armed forces’. Otherwise the undeclared guerrilla war caused by the Kansas-Nebraska Act could be the first ‘battle’. Although, there were many disputes and struggles that ultimately led up to the outbreak of a war fought for slavery, states rights, and politics. After the election of Abraham Lincoln as president, South…

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    slavery was morally wrong the south didn’t agree with abolishing slavery, they believed that black people should provide free labor. The issue of slavery became a very important series of events starting with the compromise of 1850, then to the Kansas Nebraska act, and the Dred Scott case. The compromise was originally written by Henry Clay it was a set of laws that tried to change the territorial, and slavery dispute that started to arise in the Mexican American war. In 1849 president Taylor…

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    Ross Miller Influence

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    Ross Miller, Assoc. AIA, is a designer with HDR Architecture, Inc. in Omaha, Nebraska. He joined the design studio in 2010 and has been involved in designing a wide range of building types and significant projects which have garnered several design and industry awards. In 2014, Ross was selected as a recipient of the Midlands Business Journal's 40 Under 40 Award, an award that honors 40 Greater Omaha, Council Bluffs and Sarpy County entrepreneurs, executives and professional men and women…

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    interference in determining their issues, mostly with slavery. Popular sovereignty is a major cause of the Civil War because it caused the bloodshed of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and caused more of a crisis in the Compromise of 1850. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was drafted by Stephen A. Douglas, established two new territories, Kansas and Nebraska, and let the citizens there decide the question of slavery. Controversy sprouted mostly…

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