Oklahoma

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  • Trail of Tears

    Trail of Tears
    In 1838 and 1839, Cherokee nation was forced to give up their lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day, Oklahoma.

  • Jim Thorpe

    Jim Thorpe
    He was Born May 28, 1887.Thorpe became the first Native American to win a gold medal for his home country. Jim Thorpe died March 28, 1953.

  • Sooners

    Sooners
    A sooner comes from the Land Run of 1889 to people who entered the Oklahoma District or Unassigned Land before the designated time. This term derived from a section in the Indian Appropriation Act of March 2, 1889, which became known as the sooner clause.

  • Statehood

    Statehood
    On November 16th of 1907, Oklahoma became a state

  • 1912 Olympics (Jim Thorpe)

    1912 Olympics (Jim Thorpe)
    At the 1912 Olympics, Jim Thorpe accomplished what no one had ever done before, he won gold medals in both the pentathlon (an athletic event comprising five different events for each competitor) and the decathlon ("athletic event taking place over two days, in which each competitor takes part in the same prescribed ten events (100-meter dash, long jump, shot put, high jump, 400-meter dash, 110-meter hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin, and 1,500-meter run)")

  • Oklahoma City Bombing

    Oklahoma City Bombing
    On April 19,1995, the Oklahoma City Bombing happened. It had 168 deaths. The man,Timothy McVeigh(who was also executed for his crimes in 2001) was the person who bombed the building.