To the Editor of the New-York Daily Times: During my visit here, the settlement of Kansas has been a frequent ... belief is that the territory will be made a free State. View Full Article in ...

1854: The Kansas-Nebraska act divides the Nebraska Territory in two, and soon proslavery and antislavery proponents come head-to-head in a fight over Kansas.

While it gained territory from Dickinson County in 1860 ... the first surveyor-general of Kansas and Nebraska. The name for ...

Major Acts: The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery within their borders, nullified the Missouri ...

The Democrat politician Stephen Douglas had the idea that the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska would choose for themselves whether they would become slave or free states. This meant the old ...

The Republican party was first formed in 1854 to oppose the extension of slavery in the Kansas and Nebraska territories. The ...

When it rained, it often rained all at once, triggering flash floods. By 1820 the territories that became Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma had been condemned on maps as the Great American Desert ...

In 1828, when Andrew Jackson was elected president, he promised to expand the United States westward. His justification for expansion seemed to him self-evident, for "What good man would prefer a ...

he was part of a team who made multiple climbs on the Continental Divide to retrace and re-monument the original Base Line dividing the Kansas and Nebraska territories in which is now Colorado.

It's Illinois vs Nebraska in Week 4 of the 2024 college football season. Follow our live game and score updates as the ...

It's Illinois vs Nebraska in Week 4 of the 2024 college football season. Follow our live game and score updates as the Fighting Illini and Cornhuskers open Big Ten play.

The attorneys general of 42 states and U.S. territories joined together ... Arizona, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia The Hill has ...