Chapter 16 Study Guide
1.) Name the two territories that were being combined to form the State of
Oklahoma?
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2.) Who was elected president of the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention and
why?
3.) Describe E.P. McCabe’s intentions for Oklahoma and what compare that to
what he was able to accomplish.
4.) What act combined the two “twin” territories into one state?
5.) Describe the Jim Crow Laws.
6.) Who was president when Oklahoma became a state?
7. What date did Oklahoma become a state?
8. What was prohibition and why did people want it to begin with and list the
amendment that started it and ended it.
9. Oklahoma was the ________ state to join the Union?
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10. What does the statue in front of the Territorial Museum represent?
11. What type of State politically was Oklahoma when it was entered into the
Union?
12. What type of State was Oklahoma in terms of racial equality when it was
entered into the Union?
13. Describe the difference between the perception of how Oklahomans were
doing economically and the reality.
14. Name one voting requirement that indirectly was aimed at keeping African
Americans from voting.
15. What movement did the poor farmers turn to when the Democratic party
started going back on its promises to give help?
16. Why did the Republicans start to take over the Oklahoma Government?
17. Name one interesting fact about Oklahoma when it was entered as a state.
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18. Describe the “Better Element” concept and list the Governor that supported
this theory.
19. What major event essentially ended the “have not’s” hope that the socialist
movement was going to give them help?
20. How many farmers did the Socialists claim did not own their farm by 1914?
21. Describe what it meant to be a Tenant farmer.
22. Why did the prices of agricultural products start to decline?
23. What party did the poor farmers turn to fight the Democrats?
24. Name a major riot in Oklahoma that occurred due to racial tensions?
25. Describe what it meant to be a sharecropper.
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26. Describe the KKK. Explain its purpose, who it targeted and why and its
roots in Oklahoma.
27. What district was destroyed during one of the largest Race Riots in
Oklahoma history?
28. What does it mean to show patriotism?
29. Describe why African Americans were so upset after returning from service
from WWI.
30. Currently, what party does Oklahoma support the most?