OSAT Middle Level Social Studies Questions
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Trail of Tears The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of Native American
peoples from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States, to areas to the west
that had been designated as Indian Territory.
growth of cattle industry The flat land was a great place to raise cattle. As more people
moved west, the cattle industry began to grow. During the 1870s and early 1880s, cattle ranching
went through a boom. ... Many ranchers learned about the industry from Mexican ranchers that
lived in or near Texas-- native americans brought livestock, farmed communally
Boomers and Sooners Boomers is the name given to settlers in the Southern United States
who attempted to enter the Unassigned Lands in what is now the state of Oklahoma in 1879,
prior to President Grover Cleveland opening them to settlement by signing the Indian
Appropriations Act of 1889 on March 2, 1889. Boomers preceded by a decade the Sooners,
settlers who entered the Unassigned Lands just prior to the April 22, 1889 official opening.
Populist and temperance mvt in OK The Oklahoma People's Party drew its agenda,
leadership, and ideology from both the Southern Farmer's Alliance and previous third parties
such as the Greenback and Union Labor parties. Each was active in southern Kansas during the
1880s.
The People's Party effectively portrayed itself as the true inheritor of the egalitarian visions of
Jefferson and Lincoln. Populists denounced the most exploitative aspects of late-nineteenth-
century enterprise, particularly viewing monopoly as a threat to the liberty and economic
independence of individuals.
,the Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl was the name given to the drought-stricken Southern Plains
region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a dry period in the 1930s.
As high winds and choking dust swept the region from Texas to Nebraska, people and livestock
were killed and crops failed across the entire region.
the oil boom late 1890's-1920's, first in bartlesville and then other places
OKC bombing Oklahoma City bombing
Anti-government sentiment, retaliation for the Ruby Ridge and Waco sieges
The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing on the Alfred P. Murrah
Federal Building[1] in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States on April 19, 1995.
Perpetrated by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the bombing killed 168 people,[2] injured
more than 680 others, and destroyed one-third of the building
Kate Barnard Catherine Ann "Kate" Barnard (May 23, 1875 - February 23, 1930) was the
first woman to be elected as a state official in Oklahoma, and the second woman to be elected to
a statewide public office in the United States,[1] in 1907. She served as the first Oklahoma
Commissioner of Charities and Corrections for two four year terms (this position was the only
one that the 1907 Oklahoma State Constitution permitted a woman to hold).
William H Murray William Henry Davis "Alfalfa Bill" Murray was an American teacher,
lawyer, and politician who became active in Oklahoma before statehood as legal adviser to
Governor Douglas H. Johnston of the Chickasaw Nation.
,Robert S Kerr Robert Samuel Kerr was an American businessman and politician from
Oklahoma. Kerr formed a petroleum company before turning to politics. He served as the 12th
Governor of Oklahoma and was elected three times to the United States Senate
OK's economy fossil fuels, timber, mining, tourism, agriculture
monarchy Monarchy, political system based upon the undivided sovereignty or rule of a
single person. The term applies to states in which supreme authority is vested in the monarch, an
individual ruler who functions as the head of state and who achieves his position through
heredity. Succession usually passes from father to son or follows other arrangements within the
family or the monarchical dynasty, ex. Great Britain for a long time
oligarchy small group has total control, government by the few, especially despotic power
exercised by a small and privileged group for corrupt or selfish purposes, ex. China
autocracy system of government in which one person has absolute power, absolutism,
authoritarianism
theocracy system of rule in which priests or religious authorities control the government,
based on religious law, ex: Saudi Arabia
Magna Carta "Great Charter," establishes that all subjects are under the law (even the
king), gives free men the right to justice and a fair trial, influences bills of rights later on,
establishes new relationship between King and subjects, 1215, 63 clauses related to the baron's
grievances
, the English Bill of rights 1689, makes William and Mary joint rulers, sets out basic civil
rights, limits the power of the monarch, rights of parliament, free elections, free speech in
parliament, prevents cruel and unusual punishment, influences other documents like the US bill
of rights, follows the Glorious Revolution
the Iroquois Federation "the people of the longhouse," Cemented mainly by their desire to
stand together against invasion, the tribes united in a common council composed of clan and
village chiefs; each tribe had one vote, and unanimity was required for decisions. The joint
jurisdiction of 50 peace chiefs, known as sachems, embraced all civil affairs at the intertribal
level
Iroquois Confederacy, also called Iroquois League, Five Nations, or (from 1722) Six Nations,
confederation of five (later six) Indian tribes across upper New York state that during the 17th
and 18th centuries played a strategic role in the struggle between the French and British for
mastery of North America. The five Iroquois nations, characterizing themselves as "the people of
the longhouse," were the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca. After the Tuscarora
joined in 1722, the confederacy became known to the English as the Six Nations and was
recognized as such at Albany, New York (1722).
scarcity the fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited needs and
wants in a world of limited resources. Society has insufficient productive resources to fulfill all
human wants and needs- also, not all of society's goals can be pursued. Choices must be made
opportunity costs the value of the opportunity lost in making an economic choice,
basically its the value assigned to possible choices, and the one not chosen in the end is the
opportunity cost because that opportunity is lost-- greatest benefit for the lowest cost
and Answers| Latest Update
Trail of Tears The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of Native American
peoples from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States, to areas to the west
that had been designated as Indian Territory.
growth of cattle industry The flat land was a great place to raise cattle. As more people
moved west, the cattle industry began to grow. During the 1870s and early 1880s, cattle ranching
went through a boom. ... Many ranchers learned about the industry from Mexican ranchers that
lived in or near Texas-- native americans brought livestock, farmed communally
Boomers and Sooners Boomers is the name given to settlers in the Southern United States
who attempted to enter the Unassigned Lands in what is now the state of Oklahoma in 1879,
prior to President Grover Cleveland opening them to settlement by signing the Indian
Appropriations Act of 1889 on March 2, 1889. Boomers preceded by a decade the Sooners,
settlers who entered the Unassigned Lands just prior to the April 22, 1889 official opening.
Populist and temperance mvt in OK The Oklahoma People's Party drew its agenda,
leadership, and ideology from both the Southern Farmer's Alliance and previous third parties
such as the Greenback and Union Labor parties. Each was active in southern Kansas during the
1880s.
The People's Party effectively portrayed itself as the true inheritor of the egalitarian visions of
Jefferson and Lincoln. Populists denounced the most exploitative aspects of late-nineteenth-
century enterprise, particularly viewing monopoly as a threat to the liberty and economic
independence of individuals.
,the Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl was the name given to the drought-stricken Southern Plains
region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a dry period in the 1930s.
As high winds and choking dust swept the region from Texas to Nebraska, people and livestock
were killed and crops failed across the entire region.
the oil boom late 1890's-1920's, first in bartlesville and then other places
OKC bombing Oklahoma City bombing
Anti-government sentiment, retaliation for the Ruby Ridge and Waco sieges
The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing on the Alfred P. Murrah
Federal Building[1] in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States on April 19, 1995.
Perpetrated by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the bombing killed 168 people,[2] injured
more than 680 others, and destroyed one-third of the building
Kate Barnard Catherine Ann "Kate" Barnard (May 23, 1875 - February 23, 1930) was the
first woman to be elected as a state official in Oklahoma, and the second woman to be elected to
a statewide public office in the United States,[1] in 1907. She served as the first Oklahoma
Commissioner of Charities and Corrections for two four year terms (this position was the only
one that the 1907 Oklahoma State Constitution permitted a woman to hold).
William H Murray William Henry Davis "Alfalfa Bill" Murray was an American teacher,
lawyer, and politician who became active in Oklahoma before statehood as legal adviser to
Governor Douglas H. Johnston of the Chickasaw Nation.
,Robert S Kerr Robert Samuel Kerr was an American businessman and politician from
Oklahoma. Kerr formed a petroleum company before turning to politics. He served as the 12th
Governor of Oklahoma and was elected three times to the United States Senate
OK's economy fossil fuels, timber, mining, tourism, agriculture
monarchy Monarchy, political system based upon the undivided sovereignty or rule of a
single person. The term applies to states in which supreme authority is vested in the monarch, an
individual ruler who functions as the head of state and who achieves his position through
heredity. Succession usually passes from father to son or follows other arrangements within the
family or the monarchical dynasty, ex. Great Britain for a long time
oligarchy small group has total control, government by the few, especially despotic power
exercised by a small and privileged group for corrupt or selfish purposes, ex. China
autocracy system of government in which one person has absolute power, absolutism,
authoritarianism
theocracy system of rule in which priests or religious authorities control the government,
based on religious law, ex: Saudi Arabia
Magna Carta "Great Charter," establishes that all subjects are under the law (even the
king), gives free men the right to justice and a fair trial, influences bills of rights later on,
establishes new relationship between King and subjects, 1215, 63 clauses related to the baron's
grievances
, the English Bill of rights 1689, makes William and Mary joint rulers, sets out basic civil
rights, limits the power of the monarch, rights of parliament, free elections, free speech in
parliament, prevents cruel and unusual punishment, influences other documents like the US bill
of rights, follows the Glorious Revolution
the Iroquois Federation "the people of the longhouse," Cemented mainly by their desire to
stand together against invasion, the tribes united in a common council composed of clan and
village chiefs; each tribe had one vote, and unanimity was required for decisions. The joint
jurisdiction of 50 peace chiefs, known as sachems, embraced all civil affairs at the intertribal
level
Iroquois Confederacy, also called Iroquois League, Five Nations, or (from 1722) Six Nations,
confederation of five (later six) Indian tribes across upper New York state that during the 17th
and 18th centuries played a strategic role in the struggle between the French and British for
mastery of North America. The five Iroquois nations, characterizing themselves as "the people of
the longhouse," were the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca. After the Tuscarora
joined in 1722, the confederacy became known to the English as the Six Nations and was
recognized as such at Albany, New York (1722).
scarcity the fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited needs and
wants in a world of limited resources. Society has insufficient productive resources to fulfill all
human wants and needs- also, not all of society's goals can be pursued. Choices must be made
opportunity costs the value of the opportunity lost in making an economic choice,
basically its the value assigned to possible choices, and the one not chosen in the end is the
opportunity cost because that opportunity is lost-- greatest benefit for the lowest cost
