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Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears was a journey the Cherokee people and other indian tribes had to take because of Andrew Jackson Indian removal policy. The year it started happening was in 1838. The Cherokee people lived east of the Mississippi river but then the tribe was forced to move to Oklahoma territory. The indians had to walk thousand of miles on foot, the tribes faced hunger, diseases, and exhaustion. -
Tribes That Were Involved in the Trail of Tears
All of the tribes that were involved in the Trail of Tears were Cherokee Tribe, Choctaw Tribe, Seminole Tribe, Creek Tribe, and the Chickasaw Tribe -
Jim Thorpe/ Date of Birth
Jim Thorpe was an african American man who was American athlete and winner of olympic gold medals, He was born May 28, 1887, He was considered the best athlete in the 1900's -
The Land Rush
The first Land Rush happen on April 22, 1889, over 500,000 people lined up, getting ready to race to claim unclaimed land for free in Oklahoma. If you were a sooner back then, you probably would be dead. A sooner is a person or a group who would leave to early to claim land from the Land Rush in 1889 in Oklahoma. You would usually get caught and shot right when someone sees you. -
Statehood and other Facts
Oklahoma became a state on November 16, 1907. It capital is Oklahoma City with a population of 610,613. The quarter features the state bird, Scissortail Flycatcher, and the bird is flying over the state's wild flower, the Indian Blanket. A well known nickname that was given to Oklahoma was the panhandle state because of its narrow piece of land that looks like it should be apart of Texas, it used to be unclaimed so people called it no man's land. -
Jim Thorpe First Olympic Medal
Jim Thorpe won his first olympic medal representing America -
Jim Thorpe Retires
Jim Thorpe retires from sports in the year 1920 -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl occurred in the 1930s, it was a terrible time to be living in Colorado, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma because of the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl was severe dust storms that gradually damaged the ecology. The cause of this was because of severe drought and bad farming choices. But after almost a decade the weather changed, farmers got their jobs back, but lots of people fled to California while the Dust bowl was happening. -
Jim Thorpe Date of Death
Jim Thorpe died March 28, 1953 -
Oklahoma City Bombing
The Oklahoma City Bombing happened on April 19, 1995, it was a truck exposition that hit a building in Oklahoma City, which left 168 people dead and more than 100 injured. Timothy McVeigh was responsible for the bombing, he did it because of built up angry that he had against the US federal government. Timothy McVeigh was executed for his crime on June 11, 2001.
