Daily Quiz for February 5, 2009

1867. Nebraska was admitted to the Union as the 37th state in 1867. Acquired as part of the Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803, the Territory of Nebraska was officially organized with the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. The Homestead Act of 1862 officially opened the territory for settlement, leading to statehood in 1867. A greater influx of settlers came with the completion of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1869.