Early Government pt. 1
Who was the first person elected as the state's Commissioner of Charities and Corrections?
Kate Barnard
What was the place referred to as the "places where people could make a new start"?
New Jerusalem
Who succeeded Governor Haskell as governor?
Lee Cruce
What organization did a lot of the tenant farmers and laborers join?
Working Class Union (WCU)
Who was the state's first governor?
Charles Haskell
Who was Charles Haskell's secretary?
W.B. Anthony
What is martial law?
Military government, involving the suspension of ordinary law
How did the Working Class Union recruit members?
Threatening them
Who was Guthrie's first postmaster? He was also elected as a Congressional delegate.
Dennis Flynn
Where did Governor Haskell go to cast his vote?
Muskogee
Who was the state's third governor?
Robert Williams
What date did the WCU plan their rebellion?
August 2, 1917
What was Charles Haskell's first official act as governor?
Prevent Standard Oil Company from connecting a pipeline from Bartlesville County
Guthrie ran ads with pictures of the attractive office building its citizens had erected, captioned “temporary capitol building”. What was that ad implying?
It advised people to vote against the bill on June 11 and save their tax money
What is a sedition?
Resistance against the government
Who were the first military units called from Oklahoma to serve a national cause?
Oklahoma Territory’s Troop D and Troops L and M from Indian Territory
What is the "grandfather clause"?
The grandfather clause was a provision in the constitution which based a person’s right to vote on whether his father and “grandfather” could vote
Who were the two men who drilled the first three oil wells in Oklahoma?
Bob Galbreath and Frank Chelsey
What did the Supreme Court Commission establish?
To handle all the lawsuits concerning mineral rights and titles to Indian lands which had arisen from the oil boom
What is socialism?
Political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole