Famous People
Who plotted the Oregon Trail?
John C Fremont
I was a civil rights activist for Native Americans
Susette La Flesche Tibbles
We were forced to work in horrible conditions on plantations, and were treated like property
Enslaved people
People used me to carry their belongings along the trail
Wagons
This system allowed people to send mail BEFORE the railroad was built. People would ride horses across the country
Pony Express
I brought telegraph lines to Omaha, I also have a college named after me
Edward Creighton
Promoted peace between tribes and the government
Chief Little Raven
States in the north were called ____
Free state
These animals pulled wagons
Oxen, Mules, Horses
Government leaders wrote me as a compromise to create two new territories
Kansas- Nebraska Act
I was a Pawnee Scout, and helped build the Railroad
Frank North
I was a Warrior chief for the Lakota and Cheyenne. I have a statue in my memory in the Black Hills of South Dakota
Crazy Horse
States in the south were called
Slave states
I traveled along the Oregon Trail, I died unexpectedly. My grave is located in Kenesaw.
Susan O. Hail
People built me to connect the east and the west parts of the counrty
I was one of Nebraska's best known authors
Loren Eiseley
I promoted peace within tribes. There is a town named after me near Hastings Nebraska
Chief Red Cloud
A system for people to escape slavery
The underground railroad
This Fort was built near Nebraska City, and later moved to what is now Kearny
For Kearny
I was an invention created to send messages (by a tapping code) across electrical wires
The telegraph
I created Arbor day in Nebraska
J Sterling Morton
As a tribe we ate a cow that wondered into our camp. We later went to war with the pioneers over it.
The Lakota
The people who tried to get rid of slavery were called _____
Abolitionist
The Oregon Trail followed what river in Nebraska?
The Platte River
Reservations