What lands would be the first lands opened to Non-Indian settlement in Indian Territory?
Unassigned lands
What were the requirements to claim land under the Homestead Act and how much land would you receive?
Must be adult or intended citizen, improve in 5 years, pay a filing fee of $18, and you get 160 acres of land.
When was the first land opening in Indian Territory? What method was used to open the land?
Land Run April 22, 1889
What groups supported and opposed the opening of the lands?
Mixed-bloods, Boomers, Railroads, and Merchants supported it. Full-bloods and cattlemen opposed it.
Term for those who snuck onto lands early before they were open?
Sooners
Who led a group of ---- into a rebellion against the allotment process and what was the rebellion called?
Chitto Harijo, Creeks, and Crazy Snake Rebellion
What are death claims?
A will that an Indian signed in which title to land was transferred the moment an Indian died.
The ---- was essential to a town's ability to grow and survive. It assured access to supplies and attracting business.
Railroad
The are described as the best occupied land left in America was?
Unassigned Lands
Choose the statement that is NOT true about the Homestead Act?
Homesteaders had to make the land on which they settled productive.
The Boomers gained the attention of the nation because?
Newspapers around the nation wrote about them.
When David Payne was arrested, he was taken to Fort Smith for trial, where Judge Parker?
Fined him $1000 and set him free
Pressure to open Oklahoma Territory came from the most powerful businesses in America, the?
Railroad industry
Many black Americans thought that the Unassigned Lands should be?
Given to blacks because they had been held in bondage by Indian masters.
When one railroad man observed that his company had managed to build a railroad through a 300-mile tunnel, he meant that?
Indians in the Unassigned Lands shipped almost nothing in or out by rail.
The amendment to the Indian Appropriations Act directed President Harrison to?
Set a time to allow homesteaders to enter the Oklahoma district.
Which of the following statements is true of David Payne?
He was called the Prince of Boomers.
Which of the following people or industries did NOT profit from the opening of Indian Land?
Indians
The Unassigned Lands were populated by white settlers by means of?
Land run
Religious organizations were important to homesteader communities for?
Setting up schools and hospitals
Which came first?
Homestead Act
Soddies were?
Crude structures that were built of thick blocks of grass and dirt.
A quarter section is defined as?
160 acres
On example of the Five Tribes special status in the eyes of the federal government was?
The tribes specific exemption from the forced breakup of tribal estates that other Indian tribes had suffered.
The drive to end the tribes special status in Washington came from all of the following people EXCEPT?
Missionaires
The federal government established the Union Agency at Muskogee in order to?
Create one office to do business with all of the five tribes
The jurisdiction of the Indian courts?
Applied only to Indians in nonfederal cases.
People who had moved into India Territory from surrounding states viewed tribal land ownership and tribal government as?
A way of preventing them from exercising their rights as American citizens.
When all of the land had been divided among the tribal citizens?
The tribal governments would close and the five Indian republics would no longer exist.
The Crazy Snake rebellion, led by Chitto Harijo, was a means of resisting change by?
Forbidding Creeks to accept allotments.
One of the major ways that grafters could get land was through?
Bidding on it
Grafters often received control of the land of full-bloods orphaned Indian children by?
Becoming their guardian.
Market Economy
A system in which most goods and services are produced for the market and distributed through the buying and selling. By contrast, in a subsistence economy, households produce all or most goods and services in order to meet household or community needs; g
Forges
Furnace used to heat metal and shape it in tools and other items.
Royalties
Share of profit reserved to the owner of oil or mineral rights on land.
Blood Quantum
Fraction of person's ancestry "for blood" that is Native American.
Landlord
A person who rents land to other people
Sharecropper
Farmer who pays the landowner with a share of the crop. Sharecropping is a form of tenancy
Subscription Schools
School financed by the families of a community.