OKLAHOMA HISTORY

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STUDY GUIDE

1) THE BOOK DICTATED IN 1299 AND PUBLISHED IN 1477 THAT PROVED TO BE A MAJOR INFLUENCE ON EUROPEAN EXPLORATION AND HELPED LEAD TO THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA WAS TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO. 2) MARCO POLO NEVER REACHED THE AMERICAN CONTINENT. 3) DE SOTO, ONATE, AND CORONADO WERE ALL SPANISH EXPLORERS IN AMERICA. 4) DISEASES INTRODUCED BY THE EUROPEANS CAUSED THE DEATHS OF THE MOST INDIANS. 5) TOBACCO, CORN, AND BEANS WERE UNIQUE PRODUCTS TO THE INDIANS. 6) EXPLORING THE INDIAN CULTURE WAS NOT A MAJOR GOAL OF THE EARLY EXPLORERS. 7) THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE WAS AN ALL-WATER ROUTE THROUGH THE NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT. 8) A CARTOGRAPHER REFERS TO A PERSON WHO IS A MAPMAKER. 9) A CALUMET IS A LONG CEREMONIAL PIPE. 10) REFERS TO SPANISH CONQUERORS. 11)CORTES AND PIZARRO WERE EXPLORERS WHO DEVASTED THE AZTEC AND INCA INDIANS. 12)THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CHANGE INTRODUCED BY THE EUROPEANS TO THE LIFE OF THE INDIANS RESULTED FROM THE HORSE. 13)A CRYPTOGRAPHER REFERS TO A PERSON WHO DECIPHERS SECRET CODES. 14)KIAMICHI, CHOUTEAU, AND POTEAU ARE ALL NAMES INFLUENCED BY THE FRENCH LANGUAGE. 15)JOHN CABOT SAILED UNDER AN ENGLISH FLAG AND WAS THE FIRST EUROPEAN TO REACH NORTH AMERICA. 16)JUAN DE ONATE ESTABLISHED THE FIRST SPANISH SETTLEMENT IN NEW MEXICO BUT FOUND OKLAHOMA NOT TO HAVE MUCH MONETARY VALUE. 17)JEAN BAPTISTE, SIEUR DE BIENVILLE WAS THE FRENCHMAN WHO FOUNDED NEW ORLEANS. 18)MALLET AND DE LA BRUYERE EXPLORED THE CANADIAN RIVER FOR FRANCE WHILE TRYING TO OPEN ROUTES TO SANTA FE. 19)PANFILO DE NARVAEZ SET OUT UNSUCCESSFULLY TO CONQUER THE TERRITORY FROM THE RIO GRANDE TO THE CAPE OF FLORIDA. 20)MARCO POLO TRAVELED TO CHINA AND WROTE A BOOK ABOUT HIS TRAVELS. 21)FRANCISCO VASQUEZ DE CORONADO LED AN EXPEDITION IN 1540 INTO THE LAND NORTH OF MEXICO, INCLUDING OKLAHOMA LOOKING FOR THE CITY OF GOLD. 22)HERNANDO DE SOTO EXPLORED WHAT IS NOW THE SOUTHEASTERN U.S. LOOKING FOR GOLD IN 1539. 23)ROBERT CAVALIER, SIEUR DE LA SALLE LED AN EXPEDITION DOWN FROM CANADA THROUGH MISSISSIPPI RIVER TO THE GULF OF MEXICO. 24)HERNANDO CORTES CONQUERED THE AZTEC INDIANS. 25) LANDED IN THE BAHAMAS AND THE CARIBBEAN IN 1492. 26)FRIAR JUAN DE PADILLA PRIEST WHO MARCHED NORTH FROM MEXICO TO A WICHITA VILLAGE ON THE RED RIVER TO SET MISSIONARY EFFORTS. 27)JOLLIET AND MARQUETTE EXPLORED THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER FOR FRANCE AS FAR SOUTH AS ARKANSAS LOOKING FOR THE FAMOUS NORTH WEST PASSAGE. 28)BERNARD DE LA HARPE LED A GROUP OF FRENCHMEN TO SET UP TRADING POSTS ALONG THE RED RIVER AMONG THE CADDO TRIBES. 29) CONQUERED THE INCA INDIANS OF PERU. 30) THE FRENCH WANTED TO TRADE WITH THE INDIANS, WHILE THE SPANISH WANTED GOLD AND SILVER, SO THEY CONQUERED THE INDIANS IN MEXICO AND SOUTH AMERICA AND MADE THEM WORK IN THE MINES. 31)THE EARLIEST COLONY ESTABLISHED BY THE ENGLISH IN 1607 WAS JAMESTOWN. 32)IN THE EARLY 1700ʼS, CLAIMED TEXAS, CALIFORNIA, AND MEXICO. 33)A BATTLE THAT WAS IN PART AN ATTEMPT BY THE SPAINISH TO SLOW THE FRENCH MOVEMENT ALONG SPAINʼS NORTHERN BORDER OCCURRED AT NEW ORLEANS. 34)THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR BEGAN IN 1754 AFTER FIGHTING ERUPTED IN THE OHIO RIVER VALLEY. 35)AS A RESULT OF THE TREATY OF PARIS SIGNED AFTER THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR FRANCE LOST CANADA TO GREAT BRITIAN, SPAIN TRADED FLORIDA TO GREAT BRITIAN, AND FRANCE GAVE UP ALL TERRITORY EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 36)AS A RESULT OF THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR, THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE FRENCH AND INDIANS CHANGED, PONTIAC REBELLION AGAINST THE BRITISH, A PROMISE FROM BRITIAN NOT TO DISTURB THE INDIANS IN GEORGIA, AND A PLAN TO MOVE THE INDIANS TO OKLAHOMA. 37)AFTER THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR, OKLAHOMA, FOR MOST OF FORTY YEARS, WAS A PROVINCE OF SPAINISH-CONTROLLED . 38)THE CHEROKEE SIDED WITH GREAT BRITIAN DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. 39)PINCKNEYʼS TREATY WITH SPAIN IN 1795 RESULTED IN FREE NAVIGATION OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 40)THE TRAIL THAT RAN FROM SANTA FE TO THE WHICHITA MOUNTAINS IN SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA AND THEN FOLLOWED THE RED RIVER TO LOUISIANA WAS CALLED THE GREAT SPANISH ROAD. 41)IN 1803, THE U.S. BOUGHT THE LOUISIANA TERRITORY FOR 15 MILLION DOLLARS FROM FRANCE. 42)THE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. AT THE TIME OF THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE WAS THOMAS JEFFERSON. 43)IN 1819, OKLAHOMA BECAME CONNECTED TO ARKANSAS TERRITORY. 44)THE EXPEDITION TO EXPLORE THE LOUISIANA TERRITORY WAS CALLED THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION. 45)PRESIDENT THOMAS JEFFERSONʼS VIEWS ON THE INDIANS IN THE U.S. WERE HE BELIEVED INDIAN IN BODY AND MIND TO BE EQUAL TO WHITE MEN, HE BELIEVED THEY SHOULD MOVE VOLUNTARILY IN ORDER TO CHANGE THEIR ENVIROMENT, AND SHOULD SHIFT FROM HUNTING AND GATHERING TO FARMING SOCIETIES. 46)AFTER THE WAR OF 1812, WITH MORE WHITE SETTLERS MOVING WEST, THE YEAR 1819 SAW OKLAHOMA BECOME PART OF ARKANSAS TERRITORY. 47)THE OLDEST PERMANENT WHITE SETTLEMENT IN OKLAHOMA WAS ESTABLISHED AS A TRADING POST LOCATED IN SALINA. 48)AT THE BATTLE OF CUTTHROAT GAP, THE OSAGE ATTACKED AND KILLED THE KIOWA. 49)ACCORDING TO THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE, HOW MANY RESIDENTS DID A TERRITORY NEED TO SEEK STATEHOOD. - 60,OOO PEOPLE 50)THE OSAGE TRADED HUNTING LAND TO THE CHEROKEE FOR CASH AND GIFTS IN THE LOVELYʼS PURCHASE TREATY. 51)THE FORT COLONEL ARBUCKLE BUILT NEAR THE SITE WHERE THE RED AND KIAMICHI RIVERS MEET IS CALLED FORT TOWSON. 52)THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT MOST ASSOCIATED WITH THE FORCED REMOVAL OF THE SOUTHEASTERN INDIANS WAS JACKSON. 53)THE INTENT OF THE INDIAN REMOVAL ACT WAS TO NEGOTIATE TREATIES TO REMOVE THE INDIANS FROM THE SOUTHEASTERN U.S. 54)THE CAPITAL OF THE EASTERN CHEROKEE IN 1822 WAS NEW ECHOTA, GEORGIA. 55)THE REMOVAL OF MOST TRIBES TO BE REMOVED TO LANDS WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER WAS THE DISEASE, STARVATION AND POOR WEATHER. 56)THE FIRST EASTERN TRIBE TO BE REMOVED TO LANDS WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER WAS THE CHOCTAW. 57)WILLIAM MCINTOSH, MAJOR RIDGE, AND ELIAS BOUDINOT WERE KILLED AFTER SIGNING TREATIES OF REMOVAL. 58)THE TERM TRAIL OF TEARS IS THOUGHT TO HAVE ORIGINATED WITH THE CHEROKEE TRIBE.