Assessment Reading

Read the text and view the image.

The government decided to have a land run, which meant that on a specific date and time, people could run onto the land and claim a part of it.

The reader can tell that the meaning of land run is –

• running with dirt to dump it

• racing for land to own it

• a horse race with many people

• fields of horses rushing forward

People long ago who wanted to start farms had a chance to do that. Some people did not have money, but they were willing to work

Why did some people believe that the 1889 Land Run was a good thing?

• The Land Run allowed people to have farms without buying the land.

• Anyone with a horse could have land to start a farm.

• Land owners could only keep their land if they farmed.

• The Native Americans were also able to receive farmland.

The central idea of “The Oklahoma Land Run” is –

• The Native Americans were afraid of losing their land to the people moving from the East

• The “Sooners” were people that showed up too early for the Land Run

• The “Indian Territory” was a place for the Native Americans to live without having to move

• The U.S. government held a race to allow people from the East to claim land for farming

Read the text. "But some of the people who got land came before the Land Run started. They were sometimes called “Sooners” because they came too soon." How would the Oklahoma Land Run have ended differently had the Sooners not been allowed to keep their land?

• The Native Americans would have participated in the Land Run.

• More land would have been available to claim during the Land Run.

• The Sooners would not have had to participate in the Land Run.

• Only people from the West would have been able to participate in the Land Run.

Read the following detail from the story. After the 1889 Land Run, the U.S. government took away more of the land where Native Americans were living and kept pushing the Native Americans onto smaller and smaller pieces of land. This detail best supports the idea that the Native Americans ___

• were not allowed to live where they wanted

• were allowed to stay in the “Indian Territory”

• were trained as farmers in what is now Oklahoma

• were sold land and moved west

Complete the sentence. This picture shows the reader ___________________________.

Which detail supports the idea that The U.S. government held a race to allow people from the East to claim land for farming?

• A lot of Native American people worried that the government would take their land away again.

• If they lived on the land, built a house, and farmed there for five years, the government would let them keep the land.

• The 1889 Land Run changed the part of the United States that later became Oklahoma.

• Many of them wanted to live in the new Indian Territory where the Native American groups were living.

Read the text: "If they lived on the land, built a house, and farmed there for five years, the government would let them keep the land."

What would happen if they did not farm on the land for five years?

• They would be given a smaller piece of land.

• They would have to race for the land again.

• They would need a new law to own the land.

• They would not be able to keep the land.