History finals Flashcards
What states border Oklahoma?
Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, Colorado, New mexico.
What is the surface area of oklahoma?
69,899 mi squared
Where was the first major oil discovery?
Bartlesville
How many counties are in Oklahoma?
77
What are the main fossil fuels of Oklahoma?
Natural gas, oil, and coal.
List some of the prehistoric cultures.
Woodland culture, Plains village farmers, mound builders, early plains Indians, paleo Indians, Clovis people, Folsom people, Archaic culture, and Foragers.
What is the Bering Strait?
An area of land believed to have joined Asia and North America.
Which prehistoric culture replaced foraging with farming?
Plains village Indians
What value did the totem pole have?
It was an animal or bird who’s spirit guided them.
Who did the U.S purchase the Louisiana Territory from?
France
What was the reason for most deaths of most Native Americans?
Diseases.
What was the Northwest Passage?
The sea passage between the Atlantic and Arctic ocean.
Explain the Indian removal act
An exchange of lands with the Native Americans.
What president was responsible for the Indian removal act?
Andrew Jackson
List the 5 Indian tribes.
Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickasaw, creek, Simole.
What year did Oklahoma become part of the Louisiana territory?
1803
What was the northwest ordinance?
Chartered a government for northwest territory.
What was the trial of tears?
When the Indians had to give up their lands and so they had to migrate to Oklahoma and the trial they migrated on was the trial of tears.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
It balanced the desired of Northern states to prevent slavery and southern states for slavery.
What parallel was the Missouri compromise?
the 36th
What was the impact of the civil war on Indian territory?
slavery ended.
Where was no mans land located.
In the panhandle of Oklahoma.
What was the largest civil war battle in Oklahoma
the battle of honey springs.
What was the homestead act of 1862
It provided 160 acres of land to people who agreed to farm the land
