Oklahoma History Final

When people relied and got along with each other after the Land Run regardless of religion or race.

Pioneer Spirit

When was the Green Corn Rebellion?

1917

Who led the Green Corn Rebellion

(WCU) Working Class Union

When was the WW1 Influenza (Spanish Influenza)?

1918

When was Manuel Herrick Elected?

1920

Where did Manuel Herrick want to move the countries capital to?

Kansas

(T/F) Manuel Herrick wanted to investigate rigged pageants for his own benefit.

True

(T/F) Manuel Herrick only ran under the democrat party

F

When was Alice Mary Roberson elected?

1920

Who was the 2nd woman elected to congress.

Alice Mary Roberson

(T/F) Alice Mary Roberson founded University of Tulsa

T

(T/F) Alice Mary Roberson wanted women to have the right to vote.

F

What year was the Tulsa Race Riots?

1921

When did the Dust Bowl occur?

1930s

What got cut down causing the Dust Bowl?

Crosstimbers

What being planted and made fixed the Dust Bowl?

Trees and Man-Made Lakes

Who was a popular Oklahoman humorist?

Will Rogers

Who died with Wiley Post in a plane crash?

Will Rogers

Who was Jim Thrope?

Athlete

Who was a famous daredevil?

Wiley Post

(T/F) Wiley Post wasn't an innovator with aeronautics and aviation.

F

How long was O.U's longest winning streak?

47

Through what years did Oklahoma! perform?

1943-1955

What year did the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building Bombing occur?

1995

Who commited the bombing in 1995?

Timothy McVeigh

How fast were the highest wind record speeds?

315 mph

When did the fastest tornado in Moore occur?

May 3, 1999

What is the average temperature in Oklahoma?

60 Degrees

What kind of air do we get from Canada?

Cold, dry

What kind of air do we get from the Mexican Gulf?

Warm, moist

(T/F) Elevation increases as you go West.

T

What is a place called that recieves 10" of less of annual rainfall?

Desert

What number was Oklahoma admitted a state?

46

Highest point in Oklahoma?

Black Mesa

Lowest point in Oklahoma?

Little River

When was the first written history of Oklahoma?

1540

What Spanish person made the first written history of Oklahoma?

Coronado

Land bridge between Russia and U.S.

Beringia

What ship did Thor Heyerdahl sail?

RA II

Why did Thor Heyerdahl sail?

To prove Egyptians came here

What New World items did mummies have in their remnants?

Chocolate, cocaine, tobacco

What was the most important trading commodity?

Salt

Nomadic

No permanent home

What fraction was Louisiana of the current U.S.?

1/4

When was the Treaty of (San Ildefonso signed?

1800

(T/F) The Treaty of (San) Ildefonso returned Louisiana to France.

T

Hunting device responsible for survival of mankind.

Atlatl

What was traded in the American Vegetable Triad?

Corn, beans, squash

What was the revolution called where humanity went from hunter gatherers to farmers.

Neolithic revolution

Department of War

Department of Defense

when was the Adams-Onis Treaty signed?

1819

When was McGirt V. Oklahoma?

2020?

(T/F) McGirt V. Oklahoma was about Indian territory and it's jurisdiction over crimes.

T

What was a Nuclear Family?

Mom, dad, kids

Who's view was of a nuclear family?

Europeans

What were the five civilized tribes?

Chotaw, Cherokee, Chicasaw, Creek, Seminole

What were the three inventions that allowed settling of the West by Europeans?

Barbed wire, steel-tipped plow, windmills

What is when inventions last 100 years?

Copyright

What was a term of dichotomy regarding Indians?

Noble Savage

Of the original 13 which colony was the only one to treat Indians with respect and fairness?

Pennsylvania

What people lived in Pennsylvania?

Quakers

What were Indians called whenever they were scalped for payment?

Redskins

Giving gifts to one's enemy to keep the enemy satisfied

Appeasement

Absorption of one society into another.

Assimilation

What war split the Natives into siding with either the Americans of Europeans?

War of 1812

A way to divide tribal lands and push European views of life and family.

Allotments

Who suggested the first tribe for removal to the West?

John C. Calhoun

What tribe was first suggested for removal to the West?

Choctaw

When was the Indian Removal Act?

1830

Annual payments made

Annuities

What did railroads kill?

Cowboys

What did railroads create?

Timezones

After the Civil War, what two territories were there in the future-Oklahoma?

Oklahoma and Indian territory

Which tribes constitution was not in writing?

Seminole

Who was the Cherokee chief?

John Ross

Who was a Native American general in the Civil War?

Stand Watie

What tribes owned Tulsa?

Creek

What was Tulsa originally called?

Tulsey Town

When did Indian Removal begin?

1787

He Who Yawns

Geronimo

Leader of cattle drive name?

Trail Boss

What was the costly fever Texas Cattle got?

Texas Fever

Geography affects one's politics

Geopolitics

When did Lewis and Clark leave for their journey?

1804

What tribe was Sacagawea apart of?

Shoshone

Who was the 1st American to write about Oklahoma?

Wilkinson

A place of safety

Refuge

Theft of property

Larceny

Killing without malice or forethought

Manslaughter

The Hanging Judge

Isaac Parker

1890 census in Indian Territory had a ratio of non-native to native of what?

3:1

Notion that Europeans are God's people and it's their duty to convert and colonize the West from Godless Indians

Manifest Destiny

(T/F) Manifest Destiny always had bad intentions.

F

What actually drew Westward exspansion?

Law of Primogeniture

(T/F) The Law of Primogeniture made it to where the first born male inherits everything.

T

How much did the U.S. but the Louisiana territory for?

15 Million

The official power to make legal decisions and judgments

Jurisdiction

Limited Tribal courts authority to only civil cases and misdemeanors

Major Crimes Act

When was the Major Crimes Act signed?

1885

Farm that found oil under it and made lots of money

Ida Glenn Farm