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Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears, also known as The Indian Removal Act, was an act of the federal government that relocated Native Americans west of the Mississippi so white settlers could grow cotton on their land. This act was not supposed to be violent but it sometimes was and it was also very dangerous since the Native Americans had to cross the Mississippi. -
Tribes the Trail of Tears Removed
Choctaw in 1831.
Seminole in 1832.
Creek in 1834.
Chickasaw in 1837.
Cherokee in 1838. -
Birth of Jim Thorpe
Jim Thorpe was born May 28, 1887. -
Oklahoma Land Rush
The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 was the first land rush into the Unassigned Lands. The area that was opened to settlement included all parts of the US state of Oklahoma. The land run started at high noon on April 22, 1889, with an estimated 50,000 people lined up for their piece of the available two million acres. The people were only supposed to go during the race but some left sooner to claim land and get ahead, so the term sooner was used to describe them. -
Statehood
Oklahoma became the 46th state to join the nation on November 16, 1907. -
1912 Olympics
Jim Thorpe was declared the winner of the decathlon and the pentathlon at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, making him the first Native American to win a gold medal for his home country. -
Jim Thorpe Gets Gold Metals Taken Away
In 1913 he was stripped of his medals after it was revealed that he had played two seasons of semi pro baseball (for $60 a month) in North Carolina. -
Joining the Canton Bulldogs
Jim Thorpe joined the Canton Bulldogs in 1915 and helped them win 3 professional championships. -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl took place from 1931-1939 and was a period of severe dust storms caused by bad dryland farming tactics, that greatly damaged the U.S. agriculture. The states that were involved were, Texas ,Oklahoma , Kansas , Colorado, and New Mexico. The Dust Bowl was later terminated when the government gave the farmers money, the farmers rotated the growing of crops, and people planted trees in certain areas to help as a wind breaker. -
Jim Thorpes Death
Jim Thorpe died March 28, 1953 due to heart failure. -
Oklahoma City Bombing
On April 19, 1995, a truck-bomb explosion outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City,Oklahoma, left 168 people dead and hundreds more injured. The blast was set off by anti-government militant Timothy McVeigh, who in 2001 was executed for his crimes.
