Inventions
Laws
Politics
Capital
Misc.
100
The two major inventions in early Nebraska.
What were the windmill and barbed wire?
100
This Act gave farmers money for irrigation projects and for growing new crops.
What is Reclamation Act?
100
These are the two major political parties.
What are Democrats and Republicans?
100
Omaha was the first.
What was the first capital of Nebraska?
100
How ranchers marked their cattle.
What is a brand?
200
This invention started the Range Wars.
What is barbed wire?
200
This Act made it where a person could claim 160 acres just by planting 20 acres with trees.
What is Timber-Claim Act?
200
Most of the people south of the Platte were from this political party and called this.
What is South Platters and Demoncrats.
200
Lancaster
Where was the capital move to?
200
This was how ranchers move their cattle from where they live to market.
What is cattle drive?
300
Windmills did this.
What is pump water up from the ground so farmers could water their crops and herds?
300
This law allow settlers to homestead but they no longer had to stay five years to claim land.
What is Pre-emption Law?
300
Most people north of the Platte River were from this political party and were called this.
What is North Platters and Republicans.
300
Lincoln
What is Lancasters name switched to?
300
Inventor of Arbor Day
Who is J. Sterling Morton?
400
Because of barbed wire cattle could not roam free. This ability to let cattle graze and find water where ever they wanted was called this.
What is open range?
400
In the Pre-emption Law it was this long they had to stay on the land and could buy 160 acres for this much an acre.
What is 6 months and $1.25?
400
People who had similar ideas on how the government should be ran joined together to create these groups.
What are political parties?
400
What was the treate that Governor David Butler, John Gillespie, and Thomas P Kennard had aty Yankee Hill.
What is icecream?
400
Another name for the world fair.
What is Trans-Mississippi Exposition?
500
This word rfers to grain and farming. Many farmers joined these groups to get information and find markets for their crops.
What is grange?
500
This Law gave homesteader 640 acres of land so they could have bigger farms and ranches.
What is The Kinkaid Law?
500
Something you give to someone if you want them to do something for you in return.
What is a bribe?
500
The tiny town of Lancaster/Lincoln was near Salt Creek. People hope the town would grow because of the salt you could get there.
Why did they want to change the capital to Lincoln.
500
Where children who did not have parents lived. The train that took these children from onw state to another to help them get adopted.
What is an orphanage and orphan train?
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