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The Oklahoma Land
Rush
The Oklahoma Land Rush is my U.S choice for this project. The chose to talk about the
Oklahoma Rush due to great impact with had both on the people to were able to claim the land but also on the Indians who had to leave the land that once was theirs
The Oklahoma Land
Rush
*The majority of Oklahoma was native
American territory
*On March 2, 1889 congress passed the Indian Appropriation Bill proclaiming that unassigned lands were part of public domain
* At twelve noon on September 16,1893 a cannon’s boom unleashed the largest land rush America ever saw. About 100,000 people in all kinds of transportation-horses wagons, trains, bicycles or on foot raced to claim plots of land in an area of land in northern Oklahoma Territory known as the Cherokee Strip
(eyewitnesstohistory.com)
* This was the largest Rush America had ever seen
Under the provision of The Homestead
Act, a settler could claim up to 160 acres of land, and if the settler lived and improved the land they could claim it as theirs after 5 years
An estimated 11,000 homesteads were claimed. Many hardships would come ahead, many people claimed the same plot of land and they had to fight in
Supreme Court to see who the land really belonged to
The city of Guthrie was made in just one afternoon. Between noon and sundown the residency rose from a handful to 10,000. In those few hours, streets were staked off, and a government plan was begun (essortment.com)
The United States
Census Bureau estimates that the population of
Oklahoma in 2013 is
3,814,820 . The 28th largest population of the United States
digital.library.okstate.edu. (n.d.). Retrieved October
31, 2013, from digital.library.okstate.edu: www.digitallibrary.okstate.edu/encyclopedia essortment.com. (n.d.). Retrieved October 31, 2013, from essortment.com:
www.essortment.com/oklahoma-land-rush
Rush
The Oklahoma Land Rush is my U.S choice for this project. The chose to talk about the
Oklahoma Rush due to great impact with had both on the people to were able to claim the land but also on the Indians who had to leave the land that once was theirs
The Oklahoma Land
Rush
*The majority of Oklahoma was native
American territory
*On March 2, 1889 congress passed the Indian Appropriation Bill proclaiming that unassigned lands were part of public domain
* At twelve noon on September 16,1893 a cannon’s boom unleashed the largest land rush America ever saw. About 100,000 people in all kinds of transportation-horses wagons, trains, bicycles or on foot raced to claim plots of land in an area of land in northern Oklahoma Territory known as the Cherokee Strip
(eyewitnesstohistory.com)
* This was the largest Rush America had ever seen
Under the provision of The Homestead
Act, a settler could claim up to 160 acres of land, and if the settler lived and improved the land they could claim it as theirs after 5 years
An estimated 11,000 homesteads were claimed. Many hardships would come ahead, many people claimed the same plot of land and they had to fight in
Supreme Court to see who the land really belonged to
The city of Guthrie was made in just one afternoon. Between noon and sundown the residency rose from a handful to 10,000. In those few hours, streets were staked off, and a government plan was begun (essortment.com)
The United States
Census Bureau estimates that the population of
Oklahoma in 2013 is
3,814,820 . The 28th largest population of the United States
digital.library.okstate.edu. (n.d.). Retrieved October
31, 2013, from digital.library.okstate.edu: www.digitallibrary.okstate.edu/encyclopedia essortment.com. (n.d.). Retrieved October 31, 2013, from essortment.com:
www.essortment.com/oklahoma-land-rush