Vocabulary
Republicans were known as this in the state of Nebraska.
What are North Platters?
Founder of Arbor Day.
Who is J. Sterling Morton?
The state capitol we visited is the ____ capitol building built in Nebraska.
What is 3rd?
This is wires with short, spiked clumps.
Barbed Wire
What is the railroad?
Democrats were known as this in the state of Nebraska.
What are South Platters?
The house he lived in is still standing in Lincoln.
Who is Kennard?
This is the reason Ashland could not be the capital.
What are mosquitos?
They roamed free during the civil war.
What are cattle?
They wanted coins to be made of this metal.
silver
North Platters
What are republicans?
Who is Republican president Abraham Lincoln?
This is why Yankee Hill could not be the capital.
Butler, Kennard, and Gillespie did not want to be bribed with ice cream.
Wanted their cattle to roam free.
Who are cowboys?
They believed all children should do this.
What is go to school?
South Platters
What are democrats?
They road the train.
This is why the first two capitol buildings did not last.
Bad limestone and a poor foundation.
What are farmers?
They wanted to pay ____ money to ship their products on trains.
What is less?
Pumped Water from the ground so farmers could water their crops.
What are windmills?
He was Nebraska's most famous political speaker.
Who was William Jennings Bryant?
This was a major reason that the capital city was moved from Omaha because it was allowing the city to grow well on its own.
They left farmers with nothing to eat and nothing to sell.
They wanted more of this for less money.
What is land?