Except for Nebraska, which has unicameral legislature, all states have a bicameral legislature, with the upper house usually called the Senate and the lower house called the House of Representatives, the House of Delegates, Assembly or something similar.

In Connecticut the affiliate is the Concerned Citizens Party ; in Nebraska the affiliate has recently changed its name from " The Nebraska Party " to " The Nebraska Independent Party ".

** In Omaha, Nebraska, in the only vice presidential debate of the 1988 U. S. presidential election, the Republican vice presidential nominee, Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana, insists he has as much experience in government as John F. Kennedy did when he sought the presidency in 1960.

As the major city in Nebraska, it has historically been more racially and ethnically diverse than the rest of the state.

The Zoo is Nebraska ’ s number one paid attendance attraction and has welcomed more than 25 million visitors over the past 40 years.

He has received honorary degrees from the University of Nebraska, Omaha ( 1977 ), Johns Hopkins University ( 1997 ), University of Haifa, Israel ( 1998 ), and the University of Pennsylvania ( 2005 ).

Every state except Nebraska has a bicameral legislature, meaning that the legislature consists of two separate legislative chambers or houses.

Nebraska has a unicameral ( one-chamber ) legislature.

Some ended up in Nebraska, where the Santee Sioux Tribe today has a reservation on the south bank of the Missouri.

Of the 99 state legislative chambers in the United States ( two for each state except Nebraska, which has a unicameral legislature ), Mason's Manual of Legislative Procedure governs parliamentary procedures in 70 ; Jefferson's Manual governs 13, and Robert's Rules of Order governs five.

The MIAA is considered one of the top conferences in NCAA Division II, and has seen three member schools move up to NCAA Division I. Southwest Missouri State University ( now called Missouri State University ) made the jump in 1981, Southeast Missouri State University moved up in 1991, and the University of Nebraska at Omaha joined The Summit League in 2012.

* A stretch near Omaha, Nebraska paved with original brick has been preserved by the city government.

Sarpy County has the smallest area of any county in Nebraska.

Hall County has the highest density of tornado activity in Nebraska, with 121 tornadoes per, about 4 times the state average.

Vilsack has governed a largely agricultural state as did the previous two Secretaries of Agriculture, Mike Johanns ( who is currently the junior United States Senator from Nebraska ) ( 2005 – 2007 ) and Ed Schafer ( 2007 – 2009 ).

Scouting in Nebraska has a long history, from the 1910s to the present day, serving thousands of youth in programs that suit the environment in which they live.

Spirit of Nebraska council serves over 18, 000 girls and has 6, 000

The honor society has been gaining attention from Scouts and Scout troops across the state as well as outside of Missouri: Iowa, Arkansas, Nebraska and New York.

The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska ( Ho-Chunk ) has the WinnaVegas Casino near Sloan. WinnaVegas Casino

While Orchard has no television or radio stations within the village itself, KGRD ( FM ) is licensed in Orchard, Nebraska.

The road connects U. S. Highway 275 Highway to Nebraska Highway 32, which has made it well known as a significant shortcut to Lincoln, Nebraska for area travelers.

The line has since been removed and " railbanked "; it is now part of the Cowboy Trail, the longest bike trail in Nebraska.

Fran and he had met about two years after she had arrived in Manhattan from Nebraska, or was it Wyoming??

The Whigs had been irreparably split by the Kansas – Nebraska Act.

The state legislature had passed resolutions instructing their representatives in Washington to support pro-slavery and popular sovereignty measures such as the LeCompton Constitution and the Kansas – Nebraska Act.

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

Douglas ( and Atchison ) had assumed that Nebraska would be settled by Free-State men from Iowa and Illinois, and Kansas by pro-slavery Missourians and other Southerners, thus preserving the numerical balance between free states and slave states.

The Kansas – Nebraska Act of 1854 () created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory.

In 1845 Douglas, serving in his first term in the United States House of Representatives, had submitted an unsuccessful plan to formally organize the Nebraska Territory as the first step in building a railroad with its eastern terminus in Chicago.

Iowa Sen. Augustus C. Dodge immediately reintroduced the same legislation to organize Nebraska that had stalled in the previous session ; it was referred to Douglas ’ s committee on December 14.

Douglas, hoping to achieve the support of the Southerners, publicly announced that the same principle that had been established in the Compromise of 1850 should apply in Nebraska.

These territories, however, unlike Nebraska, had not been part of the Louisiana Purchase and had never been subject to the Missouri Compromise.

In the first instance, many had argued that slavery had previously been prohibited under Mexican law just as it was prohibited in Nebraska under the Missouri Compromise.

Just as the creation of New Mexico and Utah territories had not ruled on the validity of Mexican law on the acquired territory, the Nebraska bill was neither " affirming or repealing ... the Missouri act.

Pierce had barely mentioned Nebraska in his State of the Union message the previous month and was not enthusiastic about the implications of repealing the Missouri Compromise.

Known as an orator even then, Bryan had not always favored free silver out of conviction, stating in 1892 that he was for it because the people of Nebraska were for it.

" Bryan would say little that he had not said before — the text is similar to that of a speech he gave at Crete, Nebraska a week before the convention — but he would give the convention its voice.

This was due in part to the Kansas – Nebraska Act of 1854, which had divided the Democrats into Northern Democrats and Southern Democrats.

The Kansas – Nebraska Act created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory.

By 1888, most of the Fondas had relocated to Nebraska.

The Platte River and the North Platte River in the future states of Nebraska and Wyoming typically had many channels and islands and were too shallow, crooked, muddy and unpredictable for travel even by canoe.

Along their return to Fort Atkinson at the Council Bluff in Nebraska, the commission had successful negotiations with the Ota, the Pawnee and the Omaha.