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The Native Indians of Nebraska
were the were the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Comanche,
Chippewa, Delaware, Fox, Omaha, Fox, Kansas, Kiowa,
Missouri, Iowa Oto, Sauk and the Pawnee tribes
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1541 |
The Spanish explorer,
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (1510-1554) explores
Kansas |
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1682 |
The French explorer
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643-1687)
explores the area |
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1724 |
French explorer Etienne
Veniard de Bourgmont (1698-1725) claims the region
for France |
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1762 |
France lose Kansas to Spain
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1756 |
1756 - 1763: The Seven Years
War (French and Indian War) due to disputes over
land is won by Great Britain. France gives England
all French territory east of the Mississippi River,
except New Orleans. The Spanish give up east and
west Florida to the English in return for Cuba.
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1775 |
1775 - 1783 - The American
Revolution creates the United States of America. The
Revolution was due to the British burden of taxes
and total power to legislate any laws governing the
American colonies
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1776 |
July 4, 1776 - United States
Declaration of Independence |
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1778 |
July 10, 1778 - France
declares war against Britain and makes an alliance
with the American revolutionary forces
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1783 |
September 3, 1783 - The Treaty
of Paris is signed by the victorious United States
and the defeated Great Britain
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1800's |
Conflict erupts between
settlers and Native Indians including the Arapaho,
Cheyenne, Comanche, Chippewa, Delaware, Fox, Omaha,
Fox, Kansas, Kiowa, Missouri, Iowa, Oto, Sauk and
the Pawnee tribes throughout the 1800's. The Native
Indians are gradually forced to cede their lands
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1800 |
The Spanish return the land to
France in 1800 by the Treaty of San Ildefonso |
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1803 |
The U.S. acquires Nebraska in
the Louisiana Purchase |
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1804 |
Lewis and Clark reach the
eastern edge of Nebraska Info - Meriwether Lewis
(1774-1809) and William Clark (1770- 1838)
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1806 |
Zebulon M. Pike (1779-1813), a
native of New Jersey, explores Southern Nebraska
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1803 |
The Louisiana Purchase: In
1803, the United States bought the Louisiana
Territory from France. The U.S. Secretary of State,
James Madison paid 15 million dollars for the land
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1812 |
1812 - 1815 - The War of 1812
between U.S. and Great Britain, ended in a stalemate
but confirmed America's Independence
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1819 |
U.S. Army establish the first
military post, Fort Atkinson, in Nebraska |
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1820 |
Major Stephen H. Long
(1784-1864) leads the first scientific exploration
to the rocky mountains |
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1830 |
The Indian Removal Act
allowing the U.S. government to relocate Native
Americans west of the Mississippi River
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1830 |
Traders took the first wagons
to the Rocky Mountains - the Oregon Trail |
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1848 |
Fort Kearny is established
along the Oregon Trail |
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1854 |
Kansas was made a separate
territory by the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
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1861 |
The Pony Express starts
carrying mail from Missouri to California |
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1861 |
1861 - 1865: The American
Civil War. In 1859 John Brown raided Harpers Ferry
and set in motion events that led directly to the
outbreak of the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln, a known
opponent of slavery, was elected president and in
1861 the South Secedes. The initial Secession of
South Carolina was followed by the secession of
Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana,
Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North
Carolina. These eleven states eventually formed the
Confederate States of America. The bombardment of
Fort Sumter was the opening engagement of the
American Civil War.
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1865 |
The surrender of Robert E. Lee
on April 9 1865 signalled the end of the Confederacy |
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1865 |
1865 December 6 - The
Abolishment of Slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment to
the U.S. Constitution is ratified, thus officially
abolishing slavery
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1867 |
Statehood - The Date that
Nebraska was admitted to the Union - March 1, 1867.
Constitution - Nebraska was the 37th State to be
admitted to the Union. State Motto - " Equality
before the Law "
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1898 |
1898-1901 The Spanish American
War. On December 10, 1898 the Treaty of Paris the US
annexes Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines.
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