Oklahoma Territory

(William). The events that took place in the 1930s kept the characters from living their normal lives and forced them to move all the way to California to find out it was all just a broken promise. Between 1930 and 1940, the southwestern Great Plains territory of the United States suffered a severe drought (Great Depression). The Dust Bowl was a period of intense…

Thinking back in American history, the most notable Native American event is the Trail of Tears. This event, for obvious reasons, is taught in every school and known by every American. Because of the cruel acts during this famous event, it is easy to single this one out and forget about many others. One of the major Native American events that is forgotten is the Ghost Dance of 1890. Like the Trail of Tears, the Ghost Dance effected the lives of the Native Americans; and by the end, a large…

willing to get on board with the expansion of America, except for the Indian people. The Indian people felt as though their land, in which they owned, was a good source for hunting, while the settlers thought it was a good idea to expand the nation 's territory. Reaching no concluded agreement, the white settlers came up with an alleged theory, that, in so many words, the whites were the superior and the non-whites were the inferior; and the inferior had no rights to own any land, and therefore…

Cowboys and Indians: The United States and the Lasting Legacy of its History of Conquest Ned Blackhawk is a Western Shoshone professor of history and American studies at Yale University. His works have focused primarily on post-Columbian Native American history. Within his work, Blackhawk has argued that ‘the history of conquest has an important though largely ignored legacy in the modern United States’. This essay will be an analytical evaluation of the validity and implications of that…

The First Seminole War happened in the years of 1817 to 1818 between the United States and the Seminoles of Florida. The first Seminole War was a punitive journey led by Andrew Jackson into the La Florida, which was a Spanish colony in 1818. Many are under the impression that the United States were responsible for the cause of the war and everything that happened in the war, when in fact both sides were responsible for the war, and both were equally to blame for the consequences of the war.…

The changing nation of the U.S. reflects a growing sense of national pride and identity in many ways. After the war of 1812, in the U.S. everyone is high on nationalism because of the defeat of the British. During James Monroe’s presidency, called The era of good feelings, is where everyone is high on nationalism and The government makes questionable decisions because everyone has too much nationalism they don't want to go against what the government is saying. Andrew Jackson knows the…

Ralph Ellison uses his short story, Battle Royal to depict the racism that he had to endure as a boy growing up in Oklahoma and the way he was taught to deal with it by his grandfather, who was born a slave and endured Emancipation. The title Battle Royal, refers to how African American people are participating in a constant battle for fair treatment, equality, and their rights as human beings. Ellison uses many different symbols throughout the story to represent the psychological effect that…

Battle over land ownership and the movement of the Native American’s off of their land is part of the American story. As whites moved across America, the Indians were moved to less desirable land. In the two essays that I wrote for this class, Kaw People and Absentee Landowners the interesting connection between both essays is that not only were the Indians moved off the land but settlers and their descendants who wanted the land were priced out of the land in Chase County. Both essays are…

removal of the Cherokee nation is what is known as the trail of tears. Thesis statement. The Indian removal act called for the removal of all Indians in the eastern part of the U.S to be moved westward beyond the Mississippi river to present day Oklahoma.…

considerable length of time after the Civil War started moving amid the New Deal and now are overwhelmingly Democratic. (Desilver, 2014). In the 2012 Presidential Election the only major cities to vote with the Republicans were Phoenix, Fort Worth, Oklahoma City, and Salt Lake City. Mitt Romney had dominated within the Utah capital, however, Phoenix was close to voting for Obama in the 2012 Presidential Election. The divide is so distinct to the point that some of America’s “bluest” cities are…