Nebraska

A Plains farm-and-ranch state of Midland settlement shading into the Far West frontier, Nebraska was opened by the 1862 Homestead Act and the transcontinental railroad. Corn, cattle and the Platte River valley shape it. Uniquely, it governs through a nonpartisan single-chamber legislature, a Progressive-era reform.

• Existed: 1823 CE – present
• Type: Entity
• Government: U.S. State
• Capital: Lincoln