Ch 12 Boomer Sooner

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Believed federal land should be open to white settlement

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Boomer

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Before railroads, how did people travel into Indian Territory?

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horse and boat

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OKH.3.3

3.B.9-12.5

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In order to legally claim land, people had to gather at the boundaries of the Unassigned Lands, and race to the part of land that they claimed.

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True

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OKH.3.3

3.B.9-12.5

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Did everybody obey the law and not go early into the Unassigned Lands during the Land Run of 1889?

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False

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OKH.3.3

4.B.9-12.1

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What were the people called who crossed the border line to claim the land Sooner than they were supposed to?

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Sooners

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OKH.3.3

4.A.9-12.3

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Many people who went into the Unassigned Lands before the April 22, 1889 deadline were successful at claiming the land before the people who obeyed the law and waited until they were supposed to. True or False?

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True

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OKH.3.3

4.A.9-12.1

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The law was easy to enforce in Indian Territory, with outlaws wanting to avoid hanging out in Oklahoma at all costs. True or False?

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False

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OKH.3.3

4.A.9-12.1

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Each homestead claimed in the Unassigned Lands contained

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160 acres

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The number of boomers who actually settled in Oklahoma was ______?

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less than 1,000

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The congressional act that resulted in groups increasing their lobbying efforts to get the lands opened was the ______ Act?

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Indian Appropriations