OK History Online Final Review (benchmark tests)

Which of the following is NOT true of disease brought to the New World by the Europeans?

- Some tribes lost half of their populations to these outbreaks. - The Natives had no immunity to them. - Diseases like smallpox are highly contagious. --> All of the above are true.

Test 2: Which of the following is NOT true of the Creek War?

-->Creeks were able to live successfully on their allotments. - Many Creeks tried to stay in Alabama and accept allotments. - Many were marched 90 miles in chains to boats heading to Indian Territory. - The Creek rebellion left several white settlers dead.

Test 5: What is NOT a reason that many small farmers have left farming?

-->Low cost loans - High labor costs - Expensive equipment - Corporate competition

Test 2: Which of the following is NOT true of Worcester v. Georgia?

-->The Supreme Court did not side with the Cherokees. - The State of Georgia had abolished the Cherokee tribal government. -Jackson ignored the ruling. - Samuel Worcester was a missionary in the Cherokee nation

Test 4: The Kiowa Six were a group of six Kiowa artists from Oklahoma. Which of the following is NOT one of those six?

-->Watonka -Stephen Mopope -Spencer Asah -Lois Smoky

Test 3: What did Oklahoma's progressive party (the Populists) want government to NOT put in place?

-A graduated income tax system -Strong regulations on big business --> Legal requirements to join a union - The initiative and referendum

Test 2: Which of the following was NOT true of the cattle industry in Indian Territory?

-Cattle ranching began in Indian Territory in the 1840s. -->Federal officials did not want the Native Americans ranching. -Chickasaw ranchers alone grazed at least 140,000 head of cattle in 1882. -The Cherokee tribe leased their Outlet to the Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association.

Test 2: Which of the following is NOT true of coal mining in Indian Territory?

-Coal companies laid out and controlled new towns. - Native Americans were supposed to receive royalties. -->Native Americans did most of the mining. -Foreign-born miners often brought their entire families with them.

Test 3: What is NOT a fact about the Tulsa race riot?

-It began on May 31, 1921. - Black Tulsan's were held, for their safety, by National Guard troops. --> It involved the murder of a white, female elevator operator. - Tulsa's Greenwood district was devastated.

Test 2: Which of the following is NOT true of Fort Gibson?

-It was the center of trade and travel in the region. --> It was not used during the 1830s and 1840s. -It was the base for the Leavenworth-Dodge dragoon expedition. -The primary goal was to stop the violence between the Osage and Cherokee.

Test 2: Which of the following was NOT a major goal of the early military posts set up in Indian Territory?

-Keep peace between European Americans and Native American groups - Regulate trade between European American settlers and Native American groups - Keep peace between the Five Civilized Tribes and the Southern Plains Tribes --> Protect the Five Civilized Tribes from the British

Test 2: Which of the following was a hardship faced by the Native Americans on the Trail of Tears?

-Lack of food -Extreme temperatures --> All of the above -Disease outbreaks

Test 2: Which of the following was an impact of the Dawes Act?

-Loss of tribal sovereignty -Grafting of allotments --> All of the above -Break up of tribal land estates into individual allotments

Test 3: The joining of the two territories into the State of Oklahoma was symbolized by

A "marriage" between a man dressed as a cowboy and a woman dressed as an Indian.

Test 3: Before the breakup of any Indian nation into individual allotments, it was necessary to have:

A survey of lands and preparation of citizenship rolls

Test 4: What is the designated emblem for Oklahoma's Fighting Forty-fifth?

A thunderbird within a red diamond

Test 5: What was one of the realities the oil bust of the 1980s made visible?

Actions by governments the world over, not just the U.S., affect Oklahoma's economy.

Test 3: Because some leaders from each of the 5 Civilized Tribes had sworn allegiance to the Confederate States of America,

All 5 Tribes lost large portions of their land in Indian Territory.

Test 4: Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Dust Bowl?

An increase in the average rainfall

Oklahoma is drained by two river systems, which are:

Arkansas River and the Red River.

Test 2: ______________ clamored loudly to have the Unassigned Lands opened up to non-Native American settlement.

Boomers

Test 4: Towns which suddenly sprang up when oil was discovered were called ________________.

Boomtowns

Test 5: What landmark court case ruling forced desegregation of all schools?

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Test 2: ________________ was the term that Native Americans used for the African American troops, especially those stationed on the Great Plains following the Civil War.

Buffalo Soldiers

Test 5: What has Oklahoma pioneered that other states try to emulate?

Career and Technological Education Program

Test 5: What Oklahoman politician became speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives?

Carl Albert

Test 3: The most immediate purpose of the reservation schools was to

Change the Indians' patterns of behavior so that they were acceptable to their white teachers.

Test 3: The name "Oklahoma" combines two

Choctaw words that mean "red people."

Test 5: Who was the teacher who led students to protest segregated lunch counters at the Katz drugstore in Oklahoma City?

Clara Luper

Test 4: What were the Native Americans called who helped send secret military messages?

Code Talkers

Test 5: Oklahoma's reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated public education was

Compliance with the orders of the Supreme Court

______________ went through Oklahoma in search of Quivira.

Coronado

Test 5: Who receives MOST of the farm subsidies money?

Corporate Farms

Test 4: Who gave his employees free health care, dental coverage, and other unheard of perks?

E.W. Marland

Which group invented the atlatl and left petroglyphs at a cave near Kenton?

Foragers

Test 2: ___________ was built on the Arkansas River to stop the violence between the Osage and Cherokee.

Fort Smith

____________ came to the New World to trade and typically treated the Natives as equals.

French

_______________ led an expedition into Oklahoma to find the rumored deposits of salt. He found the Great Salt Plains.

George Sibley

Test 3: What was the name given to the 'business' of exploiting the allotment process of Indian lands?

Grafters- people who used schemes to take away land allotments from the indians. (guardianship, leases, death claims)

Two things brought by the Europeans would forever change the way the Natives waged war. They were ____________.

Guns and Horses

Test 3: Oklahoma City became the capital of Oklahoma after Governor Charles N. Haskell led the fight to move the state capital from

Guthrie

Test 4: The "Great Plow-Up" was a disaster for western Oklahoma because _________________________.

High winds blew away soil that had been previously held in place by prairie grass

Test 2: ________________ was the largest, bloodiest, and most decisive battle of the American Civil War fought in Indian Territory.

Honey Springs

Test 5: What once risky technology has helped open up new oil fields in Oklahoma?

Horizontal drilling

Test 3: What did the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act accomplish?

It gave citizenship to every Native American living in the U.S.

Test 2: Which statement is true of the conference at Medicine Lodge Creek?

It was the largest gathering of Plains Indians on record.

Test 2: _______________ pushed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 through Congress, giving him the right to negotiate treaties with the tribes to move them west.

Jackson

Test 5: What did proration laws accomplish?

Kept prices for domestic (U.S.) oil artificially high

Test 3: What was the name of a secret society of men who pledged to keep the white race pure and superior to all other races?

Ku Klux Klan

_______________ claimed land, including Oklahoma, for France. The French would then control Oklahoma for 150 years.

La Salle

Test 2: The Unassigned Lands were populated by white settlers by ________________.

Land Run

Prairies are defined as

Large expanses of grassland and rolling hills.

The purpose of the McClellan-Kerr Navigation System was to

Link Catoosa, near Tulsa, with the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico and thus open world markets.

Test 2: ____________ is the belief that Americans were destined to expand throughout the country.

Manifest Destiny

Test 5: If most new jobs in Oklahoma are now NOT part of agriculture, which of the following would be a logical conclusion?

Many people in rural communities would move to larger cities where jobs were available.

Test 3: A non-Indian could become a citizen of an Indian nation by

Marrying a citizen of an Indian nation.

Which of the following is NOT true of the Green Corn Ceremony?

Men were the only participants.

Test 4: Bill Atkinson helped found what city near Tinker Air Force Base?

Midwest City

Test 2: ____________________ tried to entice the Southeastern tribes by offering them an exchange of their lands in the east for more land in the west.

Monroe

Which group is known for building earthworks as the foundations for temples, homes of chiefs, and public buildings?

Moundbuilders

Which group left artifacts at Spiro - a great ceremonial center on the Arkansas River - that show that they had an extensive trading network?

Moundbuilders

Test 2: What did Jefferson Davis send Albert Pike to do?

Negotiate treaties with the Tribes in support of the Confederacy

Test 5: What Oklahoma bank closed its doors because of the oil bust of 1984?

Penn Square Bank

Test 4: What is using one's wealth to benefit society called?

Philanthropy

Test 3: As American settlers pushed westward,

Plains Tribes were forced onto reservations

Which group mastered the bow an arrow?

Plains Village farmers

While more skilled than their ancestors at farming, which group returned to full time bison hunting due to a drying climate?

Plains Village farmers

Test 4: The Great Depression in Oklahoma was ultimately ended by employment . . .

Provided by the military installations that were scattered throughout the state

Test 5: The discovery of oil and gas has affected the state's history by

Providing tax revenues for schools and government functions.

Test 5: Until the 1950s and 1960s, many southern towns, including Norman,

Required blacks to leave town before sundown

Test 4: Who was the governor of Oklahoma during WWII?

Robert "Bob" Kerr

Test 5: What famous play do most people think of when talking about our state?

Rodgers and Hammerstein's - Oklahoma

Test 4: Which Depression-era problem specifically plagued eastern Oklahoma?

Sharecroppers faced low cotton prices and were unable to pay their landlords.

Test 3: What political party was in control of the federal government when Oklahoma entered the Union in 1907?

Socialists

Test 4: Progressivism was a political movement that

Sought to address the expanding powers of business by expanding the powers of government.

Test 5: What has the state government done that many critics say forces cuts in educational spending?

Tax cuts for recent petroleum drilling.

Test 3: What is the name given to Col. George Custer's 1868 attack on the Cheyenne tribe led by Black Kettle?

The Battle of the Washita

The area defined as post and blackjack oak trees growing so close together they form a natural barrier between the western plains and eastern prairies and mountains is called:

The Cross Timbers

Test 3: Which came LAST in the process of stripping away tribal lands?

The Curtis Act- it resulted in the break-up of tribal governments and communal lands in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indian Territory: the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muscogee (Creek), Cherokee, and Seminole.

Time spent by Captain Bell, as part of the Long expedition, in Oklahoma in August caused the area to be labeled ____________ on maps.

The Great American Desert

Test 5: What well-known novel did Ralph Ellison write?

The Invisible Man

Test 2: _______________ was described as the best unoccupied land in the country.

The Unassigned Lands

The Southeastern tribes measured a person's wealth by __________________.

The amount of gifts they had given to others

Test 4: The number one industry in Oklahoma since WWII is

The federal government

Test 5: The gradual shift from Democratic Party support in Oklahoma to a Republican majority occurred first at

The national level, with the elections of the president

The area of the state with the highest elevation is:

The panhandle and the Black Mesa.

The western part of Oklahoma has greater agricultural production because

The soil is more fertile.

Test 5: The Tulsa Race Riot was sparked by

The threat to lynch a black man who allegedly had attempted rape.

Test 3: Lawlessness in Indian Territory was a problem, mainly because

There were not enough law enforcement officials to deal with problems caused by the increased white population.

Test 3: Why did many African Americans create all-black towns in Indian and Oklahoma Territories?

There, they could live and govern themselves without white oppression.

Test 5: What cultural achievement was made by these five Native American women: Marjorie and Maria Tallchief, Yvonne Chouteau, Rosella Hightower, and Moscelyne Larkin?

They all became world-famous ballerinas

Test 4: What impact did military bases have on Oklahoma?

They helped provide jobs and bring the state out of the Great Depression.

Test 3: What was NOT one of the reasons Native Americans wanted their own state?

They were ready to abandon their tribal governments.

The Chouteau Brothers established an important trading center at __________________.

Three Forks

Test 5: What NAACP lawyer helped in both cases initiated by black Oklahomans who wanted to attend the University of Oklahoma in the 1940s?

Thurgood Marshall

Test 4: What was a major military base built in Oklahoma during World War II?

Tinker Field

Test 3- Who did NOT want the Unassigned Lands of Indian Territory opened to American settlers?

Traditional tribes people.

Test 4: During the 1920s and 1930s, _____________ was known as the "Oil Capitol of the World".

Tulsa

What was a major problem with the Cimarron Cutoff of the Santa Fe Trail?

Water was scarce.

The ___________ lived in Oklahoma for 500 years before Europeans came and would become the middlemen in French and Southern Plains Tribes trade.

Wichita

Test 4: Someone who risks his money by trying to drill for oil in an unproven area is a ________________________.

Wildcatter

Test 4: ___________________ was the famous Oklahoma pilot who was the first pilot to fly solo around the world.

Wiley Post

Test 4: Known as "Oklahoma's favorite son", this celebrity's social commentary had a big impact in the 1920s and 1930s.

Will Rogers

Test 4: _____________ was the famous Oklahoma singer-songwriter and folk musician who wrote "This Land is Your Land".

Woody Guthrie

Test 5: What is the definition of a Referendum?

a direct vote by the people on legislation

Test 3: Langston University, founded in 1897, was

a university for African Americans only.

Test 2: Many people who had moved into Indian Territory from surrounding states viewed tribal land ownership and government as

a way of preventing them from exercising their American rights

Test 2: _____________ is a specified portion of land.

allotment

Test 4: Areas where oil was discovered saw an increase in tax revenue. One the chaos of the rush subsided, these areas typically ended up with ____________________________.

better schools, churches, public facilities, and community activities

Test 5: What is the definition of an Initiative Petition?

citizens can gain enough signatures on a petition for new legislation

Test 3: Because of tribal reconstruction treaties, slaves in Indian Territory had been granted:

freedom, land, and tribal citizenship.

Test 3: Progressivists believe that

government is strong enough to fight big corporations.

Test 2: While on the reservation the western Indians acquired their food through _____________________ .

government rations

Test 2: In order to become true Americans, President Grant felt that the Indians must learn the importance of ___________ .

individual property rights

Test 3: Oklahoma socialism was different from Marxist socialism because

it did not support violent revolution.

Test 2: Invoking the law of blood revenge, traditionalist followers of Cherokee Principal Chief, John Ross, __________________________.

killed some of the signers of the Treaty of New Echota

Test 4: The national image of the Great Depression was portrayed by Oklahomans __________________________.

loading up their jalopies and heading West

Many Native American tribes traced their family relationships through women. The term used to describe this is ______________.

matrilineal

Test 4: The Price of Oil dropped because ____________________.

overproduction without an increase in demand led to an overabundance of oil

Test 5: What is the definition of Direct Primary?

people themselves vote directly for candidates

Test 5: What is the definition of a Recall?

process to end an elected officials service before their term is finished

Test 2: The purpose of the Red River War waged by the U.S. Army was to __________________.

push the Western tribes back onto their reservations

The Ozark Plateau is known for

rivers separated by broad, flat areas.

Test 4: Most Native Americans who became suddenly wealthy due to oil being found on their land ______________________.

spent their money freely on homes, cars, etc., but maintained much of their traditional lifestyle

Test 3: Jim Crow laws were created by southern states to

strengthen white supremacy and weaken any civil rights the freed slaves had hoped to enjoy.

SG- Define assimilation.

the process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas.