Wade_7


 * __ SHORT-ANSWER QUESTIONS __**


 * LEVEL 1: **

1. **__Clarify__** what the __Unassigned Lands__ were. Include in your response __where it was located, the time period__, __and how the government came to own the land.__=unassigned lands is land that is unoccupied, it was located in oklahoma in the 1870s and the indians ceded it to the goverment.

2. Name the __transportation system__ which also brought thousands of settlers and immigrants to the Unassigned Lands. =the transcontinental railroad brought all the people to the land.

3. __Identify__ how many people made claim on land for the __1889 Land Run__ and the __size__ of the portion of land to which they could stake claim.=50,000 people claimed land on the land run,and the size of the land was 160 acres of free land.

4. __Recall__ of what the movie __//Far and Away//__ is a good example.=one of the 1889 land run.

**LEVEL 2**: 1. __Analyze__ the impact on __Oklahoma of the Boomers'__efforts to open the Unassigned Lands.= the Springer Amendment to the Indian Appropriation Act of 1889 officially authorized settlement.

2. __Compare and contrast__ the __positive and negative connotations__ of the term __"Sooner."__ Consider how the term came about and __how the meaning evolved or changed__over the years.= claimants began illegally staking out land before the run, the University of Oklahoma adopted "Sooners" as the nickname of its football team, and later Oklahoma became known as "The Sooner State.")

**LEVEL 3**: 1. __Defend or refute__ the claim that the __Land Run of 1889__ was __harmful to Native Americans__ and cast __a negative light on Oklahoma.=__yes, it was harmful cause it was the indians land and they didnt like them.