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This Week in History: Oklahoma Land Rush
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1. What signaled the start of the Oklahoma Land Rush at noon on April 22, 1889?
Horn
Fiddle
Bugle
Drum
Bagpipe
2. What movie with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman depicts the Oklahoma Land Rush?
Up, Up and Away
Sooners
Boomers
Far and Away
Oklahoma!
3. What mode of transportation moved settlers across the country during the economic boom of the 1870s and 1880s?
Stagecoach
Railroad
Wagon
Steamboat
Model T
4. The state nickname for Oklahoma is the "Sooner State," named for settlers who did what?
Entered the territory with land grants
Discovered the gold
Learned to whistle
Came after the it became an official state
Entered the territory before they received permission
5. Oklahoma entered the Union in 1907 making it what number state?
12th
46th
40th
35th
20th
6. Oklahoma! the Broadway musical was written by which famous composers?
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Siskel and Ebert
Jones and Smith
Gilbert and Sullivan
The Gershwins
7. Under Spanish and then French control, Oklahoma became part of the United States under what famous land purchase?
Louisiana Purchase
Seward's Folly
Northwest Territory
Mississippi Purchase
Nebraska Compromise
8. Native Americans were removed to Oklahoma as early as 1817, earning the territory what name?
Plains Territory
Indian Territory
Great Desert Territory
Old Spanish Territory
Great Plains Territory
9. Which president opened up the 1.9 million acres of Oklahoma land, some of which had been previously assigned to Native American tribes, to settlers?
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
Benjamin Harrison
Chester A. Arthur
Theodore Roosevelt
10. A rush for what Oklahoman natural resource began in earnest in the early 1900s?
Oil
Gold
Salt
Silver
Aluminum
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