RESEARCH QUESTIONS ON NEBRASKA 



(An Outline Hultable for .\ebranka will be found with the article "State, i 



Which of the following states are smaller than Nebraska: Alabama; Idaho; 

 Georgia; Illinois; Kansas; Oklahoma; Minnesota; New York; Arkansas; Colorado; 

 South Dakota? 



Which of the following have a larger population : Washington ; South Carolina ; 

 Maryland; Connecticut; Kansas; Colorado? 



What two names are given to one of the largest rivers of the state? What sirai- 

 larity is there in the meaning of these names? 



What is the state flower? 



How many states were admitted to the Union between the close of the Revolu- 

 tionary War and the admission of Nebraska? 



Has this state more or fewer people to the square mile than the country as a 

 whole? Than the Canadian province of Ontario? Than each of the states upon 

 which it borders? 



What other states were, in part at least, created from territory that originally 

 formed part of Nebraska? 



Why is not the western part of the state as thickly . -tilrd as the eastern? Does 

 the larger part of the population live under rural or under urban conditions? What is 

 the Indian population? 



Of what territories has this region formed, governmentally, a part? What class 

 of people was for a time forbidden to settle in Nebraska? Why? 



In how many of the states can a larger percentage of the people read and v. 



How does the school system help the former? 



What impression of the western part of this state was drawn from the accounts of 

 the early explorers? 



About how much higher is the loftiest point in Nebraska than the lowest? Is its 

 greatest altitude higher or lower than that of Minnesota? Of Kansas? Of each of 

 the states upon which it borders? 



What stand has the state taken on the liquor question? 

 large must a city be before it can make its own laws? 



What are the Bad Lands? Why are there many springs, streams and lakes in the 

 region of the sand hills? 



What is the railway mileage to each hundred square miles of area? How does 

 the state compare in this respect with its neighbors on all sides? 



What is there peculiar about the "blowing-wells" of Nebraska? 



What is the main manufacturing industry of the state? How many cities in the 

 country surpass in value of products of this industry tin- chief crntrr in Nebraska? 



What is there especially fortunate about the rainfall of this state? What is the 

 pleasantest feature of the climate? 



What holiday, now of national importance, originated in this state? What has 

 opular name of the state to do with tins fact? 



How many states surpass Nebraska in the production of its dm t" < top? How 

 many surpass it in total value of crops? 



How many square miles are included in the area irrigated or to bo irrigated by 

 projects already planned? 



What Indian tribes are represented in the state? 



How many constitutions has Nebraska had? 



