OK History 1
This president signed the proclamation opening Unassigned Lands.
Who is Benjamin Harrison?
This group pushed for land to be opened before the land run.
Who are the Boomers?
This term describes illegal alcohol sellers during the Prohibition.
What are bootleggers?
This governor declared martial law to fight the KKK.
Who is John C. Walton?
This district in Tulsa was known as “Black Wall Street.”
What is Greenwood?
This Oklahoma soldier became highly decorated in WWI.
Who is Joseph Oklahombi.
This rebellion in 1917 protest the draft.
What is the Green Corn Rebellion?
This storm line appears as a long band of storms on radar.
What is a squall line?
This radar feature confirms debris in the air from a tornado.
What is a debris ball?
This court case challenged segregation in higher education.
What is Sipuel v. Board of Regents?
This law required public schools to teach only in English.
What is the English-only law?
This group opposed the draft and supported workers’ rights.
What is the Working Class Union?
This Oklahoma governor secretly moved the state capital.
Who is Charles N. Haskell?
This economic change reduced the need for farm laborers.
What is mechanization?
This program rationed goods like sugar and gasoline during WWII.
What is rationing?
This division included many Oklahoma soldiers in WWII.
What is the 45th Infantry Division?
This even let to increased suspicion of German-Americans.
What is World War I?
This law limited voting rights through ancestry requirements.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
This organization advocated for workers and sometimes radical change.
What is the IWW?
This structure built by settlers used dirt and grass blocks.
What is a sod house?
This type of storm produces rotating updrafts.
What is a supercell?
This storm feature indicates strong inbound and outbound winds on radar.
What is a velocity couplet?
This act helped Native Americans gain citizenship rights.
What is the Indian Citizenship Act?
This economic event caused banks to fail in the 1920’s.
What is failing farm prices/agricultural depression?
This famous film shows migration from Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl.
What is The Grapes of Wrath?