In early 1853 the House of Representatives passed a bill by a 107-to-49 vote that organized the Nebraska Territory in land west of Iowa and Missouri.

As states organized within the territory, the status of slavery in each state became a matter of contention in Congress, as southern states wanted slavery extended to the west, and northern states just as strongly opposed new states being admitted as slave states.

Dutch privateer Joost van Dyk organized the first permanent settlements in the Territory in Soper's Hole, on the west end of Tortola.

From the earlier part of the 15th Century, Portuguese expeditions organized by Prince Henry the Navigator had been crawling down the African coastline, principally in search for west African riches ( notably, gold ).

In Brazil, he briefly captured the Portuguese settlement of Salvador, personally leading the assault on the sea fortress of that town. In August with a small and undermanned fleet he sailed for the African west coast and attacked a Portuguese fleet in a strongly defended bay of Luanda but failed to capture any ships. He then crossed the Atlantic ocean again to try and capture merchant ships at the city of Vitória, but was defeated by a resistance organized by the local civilians, with assistance by a Portuguese garrison. After finding Salvador recaptured by a large Spanish-Portuguese fleet Heyn returned home. The Dutch West India Company were pleased with Heyn's leadership qualities and in 1626 placed him in command of a new squadron. In subsequent raids in 1627 at Salvador, he attacked and captured over thirty richly laden Portuguese merchant ships before returning to the United Provinces.

In the west, he organized the threatened Byzantine dominions in Italy and Africa into exarchates, ruled by military governors or exarchs, being mentioned in 584 and 591 respectively.

Two corps headquarters, one in the east at Graz and one in the west at Salzburg, would, on mobilization, command the provincially organized units in their respective zones.

In the summer of 2005, Overkill organized their first US west coast tour in more than ten years, playing Western Canada to Southern California.

By 260, Liu Qubei had organized the Tiefu confederacy in the north east, and by 290, Liu Yuan was leading a splinter group in the south west.

In 1834 much of west central Florida, including the Pinellas peninsula ( then known simply as West Hillsborough ), was organized as Hillsborough County.

This settlement, established in 1663, was organized in part to threats from the English colony of Maryland to the west beginning to assert its own rights over the area.

In 1805 Sarah Murphy organized and taught what is believed to have been the first Sunday school west of the Mississippi River.

The region west of Cape Girardeau was organized as a county in 1851 and named Bollinger County in honor of George Frederick Bollinger.

later Lineville, was organized in 1839 and built one and one quarter miles west of the town of

It was organized under two old Spanish Ranchos ; on the west, Rancho San Pedro, and on the east, Rancho Los Nietos ( now portions of the cities of Santa Fe Springs and Whittier ).

Further, the unincorporated area within the District was organized into two counties: the County of Washington to the east of the Potomac and the County of Alexandria to the west.

Verona is home to several landmarks, including Lee Cemetery, and the site of the oldest Sunday School organized west of the Mississippi and south of the Missouri Rivers.

Founded by French Canadian colonists, it was the first organized European settlement west of the Mississippi River in present-day Missouri.

In 1859, the Rose Tree hunt Club was organized south of the Township, followed by the Lima Hunt Club to the west ( 1885 ) and the Radnor Hunt Club at the intersection of Darby-Paoli and Goshen Roads in 1886.

It is also located immediately west of the boundary of the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, home to several Lakota bands organized into the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe or CRST.

In 1824 Noah and Nancy Tevis settled on the west bank of Neches River and organized a farm.

In January 1852 Harker ’ s Settlement was organized as a part of the West Jordan LDS Ward that included the Salt Lake Valley west of the Jordan River.

The primary effect of the ordinance was the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States out of the region south of the Great Lakes, north and west of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River.

In the early 1920s he worked and organized union men in the oil fields of west Texas, where he met and recruited writer Jim Thompson, who later incorporated him into several short stories using the name " Strawlegs Martin.

When the Visigoths traveled west, they encountered Latin Christians, for whom Arianism was anathema.

When they lost control of Assyria itself, the name Syria survived and was applied only to the land of Aramea to the west, that had once been part of the Assyrian empire.

The Kingdom of Dahomey was a powerful west African state that was founded in the seventeenth century and survived until 1894.

The First Peoples had survived in the harsh west for thousands of years, so the fur traders benefited greatly from their First Nations wives ' knowledge of the land and its resources.

The true extent of the damage is unknown, though the fact that the lead cames holding the west windows together survived the conflagration intact suggests contemporary accounts of the terrible devastation may have been exaggerated.

According to Grinnell's account, based on the testimony of the Cheyenne warriors who survived the fight, at least part of Custer's command attempted to ford the river at the north end of the camp but were driven off by stiff resistance from Indian sharpshooters firing from the brush along the west bank of the river.

Among the city's most distinctive residential neighborhoods, the " Golden Block " on the west side, was almost entirely demolished in the 1960s ; only the MacDonnell House, part of the Allen County Museum, and the YWCA survived.

In the west window of St John's Chapel, for instance, the medieval glass barely survived the destruction ( said to have been caused by Oliver Cromwell's men ).

From the one arctic group of people that survived Ice Age, called " Aser ", only three families were first made to explore the Eurasian north – and leave offspring i their respective regions ; east, west and south of the Baltic Ocean.

Only one vessel, the speedy new armored cruiser Cristóbal Colón, still survived, steaming as fast as she could for the west and freedom.

On the back, west wing of Beauvoir, behind a front-yard tree, the green storm shutters survived the floating debris that battered the entrance.

However, little record of its appearance has survived, except the description that the buildings formed three sides of a quadrangle, entered through a gate with a portcullis on the west side.

When they lost control of Assyria itself to the Parthians, the name Syria survived and was applied only to the land west of Euphrates, that had once been part of the Assyrian empire, while inner Assyria went back to being called Assyria.

The name of Rodoviária de Lisboa survived as part of the Barraqueiro bus company, but another part, serving the area to the west of Lisbon, became Stagecoach Portugal in 1995.

Deerfield survived the raid, and the frontier continued to be pushed north and west.

The Britons ( West Welsh, Cornishmen ) certainly survived in Devon beyond this date because they apparently re-entered Exeter at a later date and an area was known as " Brittayne " in the south west quarter of the city until the 18th century.

It is not clear as yet exactly how the Morlachs survived, but the slower feudalization of the Western Balkans compared to the west of Europe seem to alleviate their decentralization from the feudal bonds.

# That a few persons escaped in ships and on rafts, and carried to the nations east and west the tidings of the appalling catastrophe, which has survived to our own time in the Flood and Deluge legends of the different nations of the old and new worlds.

Aerial news footage showed the miraculous survival of the Courthouse building survived the fire ( for a third time ) with only the west side of it being slightly charred.

In the west, it survived under the Ostrogoths in Italy, as Cassiodorus reports Theodoric the Great's correspondence.

Those members of the detached company who survived the destruction of Fort Gadsden ( or the Negro Fort ) in July 1816 joined the southward migration of Seminoles and Blacks in the face of American advance, and probably were among the group that escaped to the Bahamas in 1822 and founded, on the west coast of the island of Andros, a community that similarly retains its identity.

The west window of the Third Presbyterian Church is a memorial to Mr. Worthington, put there by his widow and children who survived him.

The west wing and orangery appear to have survived.

In " Trinity ", Ronan discovers that some 300 Satedans survived the attack in shelters west of the capital and later moved onto other planets like Ballkan and Manaria.

Their ancestors probably survived the ice age in the ice-free areas, west of the Ural mountains, and thereafter spread to Northern Europe.