The Curtis Act
This federal group made the lists of tribal citizens, called rolls, and divided tribal land.
What is the Dawes Commission?
The Sequoyah Convention met in this city in August 1905.
What is Muskogee?
The Organic Act of 1890 made this city the capital of Oklahoma Territory.
What is Guthrie?
This opening section of a constitution explains its purpose and begins with "We, the people."
What is the preamble?
On November 16, 1907, Oklahoma became this numbered state.
What is the 46th state?
The Dawes Act of 1887 left these five tribes out of allotment, but the Curtis Act applied it to them.
Who are the Five Tribes (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole)?
This Creek chief led the Sequoyah Convention.
Who is Pleasant Porter?
Oklahoma Territory used the laws of this state until its own legislature wrote laws.
What is Nebraska?
With this power, the governor can reject only parts of a spending bill.
What is the line-item veto?
On April 22, 1889, this event opened the Unassigned Lands to settlers.
What is the Land Run?
The Curtis Act closed these, so everyone in Indian Territory fell under federal law.
What are tribal courts?
On November 7, 1905, voters approved the Sequoyah constitution by about this percent.
What is 86% (56,279 to 9,073)?
Oklahoma Territory's delegate to Congress could do this but could not vote.
What is speak?
Article II says all political power is inherent in these.
Who are the people?
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down Oklahoma's 1910 grandfather clause in this year.
What is 1915?
The Curtis Act set this date as the end of tribal governments.
What is March 4, 1906?
President Roosevelt and Congress refused Sequoyah because two new states would have meant this many new senators, expected to vote mostly Democratic.
What is four?
The Enabling Act had 112 delegates: 55 from each territory plus this Nation's 2.
What is the Osage Nation?
An initiative for a constitutional amendment needs signatures equal to this percent of the votes cast in the last governor's race.
What is 15%?
In 1931, Governor Murray sent the National Guard to open a bridge in a dispute with Texas.
What is the Red River Bridge War?
This Creek leader, also called Crazy Snake, refused allotment and tried to keep the old government going.
Who is Chitto Harjo?
These two leaders helped at Sequoyah and then led the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention, bringing Sequoyah ideas with them.
Who are Charles Haskell and William Murray?
This 1911 Supreme Court case allowed Oklahoma to move its capital to Oklahoma City, because new states stand on equal footing with older states.
What is Coyle v. Smith?
Since 1967, the Judicial Nominating Commission sends the governor three names, the governor picks one, and voters later hold this kind of vote.
What is a retention vote?
On September 17, 1907, Oklahoma voters did these two things.
What is approve the constitution and elect Charles Haskell governor?