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Trail of Tears
It all started when the Indian Removal Act was signed and put into action. This was made to make Native Americans move west. This trip was devastating and many Native Americans died along the way. This was named the Trail of Tears because of how terrible the journey was. Many Native Americans died because of hunger, disease, and exhaustion. -
Jim Thorpe is Born
On May 28, 1887 Jim Thorpe was born in the Oklahoma teritory. Little did he know he would become one of the best, if not the best athlete of his time. -
Statehood
On November 16, 1907 Oklahoma became the 46th state of the United States of America. -
Jim Thorpe at the Olympics
Jim Thorpe's life changed forever at the 1912 Olympics. He won gold in the pentathlon and in the decathlon. But a lot of people have won these events to so what makes Jim Thorpe so special? Well he was the first Native American to win a gold medal for his home country. -
The Dust Bowl
In 1930 something called the dust bowl occurred. The Dust Bowl is a series of dust storms caused from a drought and overused land. Many states were affected by the Dust Bowl, such as Colorado, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico. One solution to this problem was the U.S. Farm Bill. The bill allowed farmers to receive payment for not growing food on a percentage of their land. -
Jim Thorpe Dies
Jim Thorpe died on March 28, 1953 in Lomita, California -
Oklahoma City Bombing
On April 19, 1995 a truck-bomb explosion outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, left 168 people dead and hundreds more injured. The blast was set off by anti-government militant Timothy McVeigh. Many believe his reasoning was he was angry about the Waco Siege. In 2001 he was executed for his crimes.
