Oklahoma Territory

branch did a bad job and going threw with the law and should have been checked or had the bill vetoed.”In the fall of 1838, the U.S. government, now under Van Buren, ordered the forcible removal of the Cherokees from Georgia to the Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma”(Aboukhadijeh). The government should have not forced the cherokees out of their home because they had no business to ask them to sign the treaty of ecoata in the first place. With all this information you know know about the…

1900’s. The prohibition on alcohol was ratified, and women were granted the right to vote. Fighting in Germany during World War l had ended, things were finally turning around for America. More Americans are living in urban areas rather than rural territory. America had become an industrial powerhouse…

income tax role, and the progressive wing of the Republican Party also supported the concept. Yet in 1913, due to generous appeals and deductions, less than 1 percent of the population paid income taxes at the rate of only 1 percent of net income. Oklahoma Republican Rep. Jim Bridenstine wants to repeal the amendment in order to scrap the complicated federal tax code, get rid of the income tax for individuals and corporations and abolish the Internal Revenue Service. The 16th Amendment…

best writers, for young people fiction books. S.E. Hinton wrote many books for different ages. She grew up as a tomboy and loved horses. Susan was a very shy person that wanted to become a cattle rancher as a young girl. Susan was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on July 22nd 1950. Susan married a man name David Inhofe. Susan became “The Voice of the young people”, she helped them out when she wrote the book, The Outsiders. Susan was only 15 when she started to her first novel. She was 17 years old when…

“And the Earth Did Not Devour Him” by Tomas Rivera is the story of a young boy who lives his life as a Chicano migrant field worker along with his family. The book is not a straight narrative but is divided into several short scenes in the span of a year. From the many scenes in the book, one of them stood out to me and the relation to the theme of this course. The first scene, Rivera called it “The Children Couldn’t Wait,” he argued that the farm owners were often very cruel. Even when days…

Muzafer Sherif was a highly regarded Turkish-American social psychologist who has been deemed one of the respected founders of modern social psychology. Over the course of his career, Sherif has received an unsurmountable amount of awards in recognition for this contributions to social psychology. For example, he was awarded the Scientific Contribution Award (1968) and was the first person to receive the Cooley-Mead award. Sherif also developed several intriguing and powerful techniques for…

Andrew Jackson played an important role in the age of economic nationalism and growing political sectionalism. Economic nationalism is a circumstance in which a country attempts to preserve its personal economy by minimizing the amount of imports and investments from other countries. Political sectionalism is the support of a particular part of the United States of specific political interests. Economic nationalism and political sectionalism can be seen in Andrew Jackson’s actions in the South…

Toni Morrison, the often-mentioned Howard University alumna, is best known for her literary writings concerning race and America. Her works are centered around African Americans and seeks to bring a fresh perspective to the literary world that was rarely seen at the time her works were being published. The Origins of Others, a collection of six essays composed by Mrs. Morrison, contains similar themes to her previous works. The novelist credits her grandmother for inspiring her to write this…

believing that their new land awaited a new and yet better journey for them. Jackson had made a penniless decision to remove these people. Because of hate and out of jealousy he unlawfully used his high power to kill the many who resided in this territory. The act had promised the Natives food, clothing and medical attention. Yet the Indians had died because these materials were not given to them. Most of these innocent people suffered from the cold to what clothing could had helped. They were…

Henry Knox, Secretary of War, believed that by developing an Indian policy accepted by the Indians, would achieved the goal of the States. He figured that by “civilizing” the Natives he could bring them a sense of “Enlightenment.” Knox wanted the Natives to stop hunting and be “normal” farmers. Also, he wanted them to read and write in the English language, wear European style clothes, and most of all become Christians. He felt that by doing all of this he could make them better people and they…