OK History Final Study Guide Pt 1

Some people were tired of waiting for Congress to pass a law that would open the __________. These people were called __________, because they promoted the opening and growth of the area.

• Unassigned Lands, Boomers

• Cherokee Strip, Sooners

• Indian Territory, Settlers

• Oklahoma Territory, Pioneers

Some people who took part in the land run claimed land without following the rules of the race. These people knew that there was not enough land for everyone to make a claim. They wanted to make sure they got some land. To make their land claims, they sneaked into the territory early. They are often called __________ because they started to make claims sooner than other people.

• Sooners

• Boomers

• Homesteaders

• Pioneers

As __________ arrived, the Native Americans felt forced from their homes. Many Native Americans, such as the Cheyenne, the Kiowa, and the Comanche, did not want to move to __________.

• homesteaders, reservations

• explorers, cities

• settlers, factories

• miners, towns

Farmers also faced droughts, or periods with little to no .

• rain
• land

• sky

The Chisholm Trail entered Oklahoma at the ________ Station, following a straight course north to Kansas. It was the major trade route for cattle moved out of ________.

• Red River, Texas

• Santa Fe, New Mexico

• Wichita, Arkansas

• Dodge City, Colorado

The Union won the Civil War in ________. Many Native Americans in Indian Territory had supported the ________ during the war. As a result, The Five Tribes were forced to give up part of their land.

• 1865, Confederacy

• 1861, Union

• 1870, Confederacy

• 1863, Union

In 1828, __________ became President of the United States. He wanted to make land available for the growing number of settlers moving to the Southeast. He decided that all Native Americans living east of the __________ would have to move west to what are now Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. On May 28, 1830, Jackson made the plan official by signing a law called the __________.

• Andrew Jackson, Mississippi River, Indian Removal Act

• John Quincy Adams, Ohio River, Homestead Act

• Martin Van Buren, Missouri River, Dawes Act

• James Monroe, Colorado River, Indian Citizenship Act

The __________, __________, __________, __________, and __________ are known as the Five Tribes. Sometimes, they were called the Five __________ Tribes. (p. 73)

• Civilized

• Northern

• Western

• Mountain

In exchange for the land they left in the east, the treaties gave the tribes land in Oklahoma, except in the .

• plains

• panhandle
• south

The __________ also had a written alphabet called a __________. It was created by __________, a __________ scholar. The syllabary has __________ characters. Each one stands for a __________ in the Cherokee language. The Cherokee used the syllabary to record their __________ and to print __________ in their language.

• Cherokee, syllabary, Sequoyah, Cherokee, 86, sound, history, word

• Cherokee, alphabet, Sequoyah, Creek, 26, letter, stories, books

• Creek, syllabary, Sequoyah, Cherokee, 50, symbol, laws, songs

• Cherokee, script, Sequoyah, Choctaw, 100, word, legends, poems