Oklahoma History

Part I of Essay
In most cases, territories that want to become states are divided out by the Government. In exceptions like Oklahoma territory where the land was auctioned off and sealed bids, land runs gave the land to settlers. The other half was Indian territory, so it wanted to be a s ....

Part II of Essay
.... were part of one of the tribes. The only way they could join one of the tribes was to marry an Indian. A few people did that but a lot of people asked the government to take it away from the Indians. The government, after a few years decided to change the treaty and breakup the Indians. That was a major broken promise to the Indians. This state was formed by discouraged and displaced people. When the Government freed blacks from slavery, very few blacks knew how to read and write. The ones that knew how, found jobs, but that left around ....