Nebraska

state: Nebraska capital: Lincoln  Nebraska is located in the region of the great planes. it is and ideal farming place and wonderful for animal raising as well. Nebraska is roughly a square and has many cities including: Omaha, Lincoln, Bellevue, Grand Island, and Fremont. The abbreviation Nebraska is N.B. most of the jobs there are farming there main farming plant is corn but they also farm wheat.
 * __Geography and general information __**

French fur trader first visited Nebraska in the late 1600's. later on in 1803 Lewis and Clark explored eastern Nebraska. then Robert Stuart pioneered the Oregon trail across 1812-1814. western Nebraska was acquired by by treaty as a result the Mexican War begun in 1848. Nebraska became the only state in the union to have unicameral legislature.
 * __History __**

Nebraska is the leading green producer with bumper crops of sorghum, and corn and wheat. The states sizable cattle and hog industries make Dakota city and Lexington among the the nation's largest meat packing centers. Manufacturing has become very diverse. Firms making electronic components and parts for cars as well as pharmaceuticals and others have joined older industries such as farm machinery,clothing, and chemical. Oil was discovers in 1939 and natural gas was discovered in 1949.
 * __Farming & manufacturing __**

Nebraska's constitution was adopted in 1825, later it was amended 1982 to make sure that all range land and all farmland could only be sold to a Nebraska family farm association. In this state the government elects two senators and three representatives they have five electoral votes in the presidential election.
 * __Government __**

agriculture is the main occupation in Nebraska. the state chief's farms are cattle, corn, hogs, soybeans, and wheat. Omaha and Lincoln are both mainly involved in telecommunications industries. after world war II the state has diverse there industries. the university of Nebraska does lots of things with agriculture including maintains agricultural experiments.
 * __economy __**

In 2009 the estimated number of people in the state of Nebraska is 1,796,619 people. They have a foot ball team at the university of nebraska called the "Nebraska Cornchucers" which is the most popular team in nebraska. there is about 22. 3 people per square mile. the biggest school is University of Nebraska. 
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work sited:
 * 1) 50 states.com
 * 2) Nebraska official site
 * 3) Nebraska climate, government, etc.
 * 4) google images/ geography. com