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[[Image:Nebraska_State_Flag.gif|thumb|right|The state flag of Nebraska.]]

 

 

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'''Nebraska''' is the thirty-seventh state to enter into the Union. It is located in the Midwest and borders Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Wyoming, and South Dakota. Its capital is [[Lincoln]], and largest city is [[Omaha]].

'''Nebraska''' is the thirty-seventh state to enter into the Union. It is located in the Midwest and borders Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Wyoming, and South Dakota. Its capital is [[Lincoln]], and largest city is [[Omaha]].

==History==

==History==

Parts of what is now Nebraska lay along the [[Oregon Trail | Oregon]], Mormon, and California Trails. Fort Kearney in particular was an important stop for those travelers. [http://www.theus50.com/nebraska/]

Parts of what is now Nebraska lay along the [[Oregon Trail | Oregon]], Mormon, and California Trails. Fort Kearney in particular was an important stop for those travelers.<ref>[http://www.theus50.com/nebraska/]</ref>

On May 30, 1854, Congress passed the [[Kansas-Nebraska Act]] [http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/kanneb.htm], which created the territories of [[Kansas]] and Nebraska, divided at the 40th parallel, and gave them [[popular sovereignty]] [http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/kansas-nebraska_act.htm], that is, the right to decide whether to allow slavery or not. This act had been proposed by Senator [[Stephen Douglas]] of [[Illinois]], and angered slavery opponents because it allowed for the possibility of slavery north of the line drawn in the 1820 [[Missouri Compromise]]. The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to violence in Kansas, known as Bleeding Kansas. Despite the fact that such violence did not take place in Nebraska, Nebraska had to wait until March 1, 1867 to enter the Union.

On May 30, 1854, Congress passed the [[Kansas-Nebraska Act]] [http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/kanneb.htm], which created the territories of [[Kansas]] and Nebraska, divided at the 40th parallel, and gave them [[popular sovereignty]],<ref>[http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/kansas-nebraska_act.htm]</ref> that is, the right to decide whether to allow slavery or not. This act had been proposed by Senator [[Stephen Douglas]] of [[Illinois]], and angered slavery opponents because it allowed for the possibility of slavery north of the line drawn in the 1820 [[Missouri Compromise]]. The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to violence in Kansas, known as Bleeding Kansas. Despite the fact that such violence did not take place in Nebraska, Nebraska had to wait until March 1, 1867 to enter the Union.

==Miscellaneous Facts==

==Miscellaneous Facts==

In the world of sports, the football team of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is the state's pride and joy, having won five national championships.<ref>[http://sharkfeet.tripod.com/history.htm]</ref>

 

 

In the world of sports, the football team of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is the state's pride and joy, having won five national championships. [http://sharkfeet.tripod.com/history.htm]

==Notable Nebraskans==

==Notable Nebraskans==

*[[William Jennings Bryan]], former presidential candidate, Populist statesman, and participant in the Scopes trial in the 1920s, lived in Lincoln.

*[[William Jennings Bryan]], former presidential candidate, Populist statesman, and participant in the Scopes trial in the 1920s, lived in Lincoln.

*[[Gutzon Borglun]], who designed Mount Rushmore, grew up in Nebraska.

*[[Gutzon Borglun]], who designed Mount Rushmore, grew up in Nebraska.