WorksheetsTest 3 Study Questions
Total questions: 32
Worksheet time: 16mins
People who clamored loudly and continuously to open up non-Indian settlement were called...
Sooners
Boomers
Homesteaders
Cowboys
What was the date known as Black Tuesday, the day the stock market crashed?
July 4, 1935
December 17, 1921
April 22, 1923
October 29, 1929
The real purpose behind the "grandfather clause" was to
Keep African Americans from voting.
Allow African Americans the chance to vote.
Keep criminals and outlaws from voting.
Keep women from voting.
How did the federal government’s policy toward the Indians change after 1870?
It promoted relocating Indians to other areas.
It promoted maintaining tribal ownership of land.
It promoted breaking up Indian nations.
It promoted creating reservations for Indians.
Who were the Choctaw code talkers?
An association formed to preserve the Choctaw language from extinction.
Individuals of the Choctaw nation that used to “code” messages to help the Allies during World War I.
Choctaw members who translated the Oklahoma Constitution.
A code of silence used in military schools.
Which was the first of the land run acts?
Enabling Act
Organic Act
Dawes Act
Curtis Act
Which of these acts provided for the joining of the twin territories into the single state of Oklahoma?
Enabling Act
Homestead Act
Curtis Act
Dawes Act
Who was the president of the United States during the first land run?
Theodore Roosevelt
Benjamin Harrison
Andrew Jackson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What city in Oklahoma can be described as the "Oil Capital of the World" by 1904?
Guthrie
Oklahoma City
Cushing
Tulsa
What was the greatest source of wealth in Oklahoma during the 1920s?
Wheat
Cotton
Oil
Zinc
People who wanted to claim land under the Homestead Act of 1862 had to meet all of the following requirements except...
Prove they had limited income.
Make improvements on the land.
Farm the land for five years.
Be at least 21 years of age.
What happened on April 14, 1935, which resulted in the reference of this day as “Black Sunday”?
An outbreak of tornadoes.
The second crash of the stock market.
A massive ice storm.
A massive dust storm.
What allowed Oklahoma to come out of the Depression?
The discovery of oil in the state.
When the United States government built military facilities in the state
When investors saw the musical Oklahoma! on Broadway and realized the potential of the state.
Oklahoma just stopped being sad.
On what date did the President of the United States sign the Statehood Proclamation?
November 16, 1907
December 16, 1907
September 16, 1907
April 22, 1889
Why did members of the Five Tribes call for a constitutional convention?
To dissolve Oklahoma Territory.
To create the State of Sequoyah.
To create the State of Wildcatters.
To sell the unassigned lands to the United States government.
Which area was NOT opened as a result of a land run?
The Unassigned Lands
Greer County
The Cherokee Outlet
Cheyenne Arapahoe Lands
Who was the most famous of the Boomers?
Thomas Paine
Jeff Payne
Andrew Paine
David Payne
How many counties was Oklahoma divided into ?
77
78
99
71
What were parents required to do if they admitted their children into a subscription school?
Pay a monthly fee to watch their favorite shows, with a standard subscription starting at $12.99.
There were no subscription schools. Homeschooling was the only type of education.
Pay a monthly fee, usually $1 to $2.
Pick up printed course material purchased by mail order every Saturday.
The Ku Klux Klan in Oklahoma in the 1920s was
Anti-African American
Anti-Catholic
Anti-Jewish
All of the Above
What was the 19th Amendment?
The commencement of Prohibition.
Gave women the right to vote.
Gave Congress the ability to collect income taxes.
Abolished slavery.
What were the laws that limited the rights of black citizens in the late 19th and 20th centuries?
Jim Crow Laws
Black Codes
Prohibition Laws
Black Suffrage Laws
What did Governor Alfalfa Bill Murray do that was significant?
He united all factions of the Democratic party in Oklahoma.
He was a person who valued other people’s opinions.
He supported Roosevelt in his New Deal program.
Granted full pardons to any convict who promised to leave the state and never return.
What was a major cause of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl?
A year without rain.
Overproduction
The supply met the demand of products.
The New Deal
What was the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s programs to get the country out of the Great Depression?
The Fair Deal
The Good Deal
The New Deal
New Horizon
Oklahoma joined the United States as the
45th State
48th State
37th State
46th State
Where was the successful black community called Greenwood located?
Tulsa
Enid
Guthrie
Oklahoma City
What Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans could be segregated from whites if equal facilities were provided?
Dred Scott v. Stanford
Plessy v Ferguson
Terry v Ohio
Brown v Board of Education
In the period between World War I and World War II (1920’s and 1930’s), Oklahoma experienced
An oil boom until the beginning of World War II.
The growth of the Republican party.
Both economic growth and depression.
A great surge in population.
What was the date of Oklahoma's first land run?
April 22, 1998
July 22, 1889
May 22, 1889
April 22, 1889
Prior to the Dawes Act, who owned the land in Indian Territory?
Anyone who had enough money to afford it.
Any Indian (no matter the tribe) who could afford to buy it.
Individual tribal members through allotments.
The entire tribal nation, which means that it was held in common.
What were the Unassigned Lands?
Lands for outlaws and renegade Indians.
Lands that were taken from the Creek and Seminole tribes, but no other tribes had settled on them.
Lands assigned for cattle grazing on open range.
Lands that were taken from the white settlers.
