Curtis Act and Federal Policy
This law ended tribal courts and applied U.S. law in Indian Territory.
What is the Curtis Act?
Railroads helped farmers do this with their crops.
What is sell them in national markets?
Crime increased largely because law enforcement was this.
What is weak or limited.
People who entered land early illegally were called these.
Who are Sooners.
The Sequoyah Convention proposed creating this.
What is a separate Native American state?
The Curtis Act was part of a broader U.S. goal to do this to Native Americans.
What is assimilation
Railroads encouraged more of this into Indian Territory.
What is migration/settlements.
Having tribal, federal, and territorial laws overlap created this problem.
What is jurisdictional confusion.
People who pushed legally for land to be opened were called these.
Who are Boomers.
Native leaders wanted a separate state mainly to protect this.
What are tribal rights/sovereignty?
Dividing tribal land into individual farms is called this.
What is allotment
Which group benefited most financially from railroad construction?
What are railroad corporations.
To control crime, the U.S. created more of these in the territory.
What are federal courts?
Land runs increased this key requirement for statehood.
What is population?
Congress rejected Sequoyah partly because it preferred this instead.
What is one combined Oklahoma state?
Name one way the Curtis Act weakened tribal sovereignty.
Possible answers: ended governments, abolished courts, divided land, increased federal control.
Railroads connected Indian Territory to this larger U.S. system.
What is the national economy.
Why did lawlessness make federal control easier to justify?
Possible: showed need for order, safety, stronger government.
Give one conflict caused by land openings.
Possible: land disputes, displacement of Native peoples, legal battles.
Statehood in 1907 meant the end of this for tribes politically.
What is tribal self-government/sovereignty?
This earlier law began allotment policy before the Curtis Act expanded it.
What is the Dawes Act.
Give one long-term effect railroads had on Oklahoma becoming a state.
Possible: population growth, economic development, faster settlement.
Name one famous type of criminal activity common in Indian Territory.
Possible: outlaw gangs, bank robbery, train robbery, hiding from law.
Why did the federal government open tribal lands to settlers?
Possible: expansion, farming, economic growth, assimilation policy.
Name one major factor that helped Oklahoma achieve statehood.
Possible: railroads, land runs, population growth, federal control, allotment.