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Oklahoma History
In most cases, territories that want to become states are divided out by the Government. In exceptions like Oklahoma territory where the land was auctioned off and sealed bids, land runs gave the land to settlers. The other half was Indian territory, so it wanted to be a separate state. White men wanted both territories that they had the government take the land away from the Indians. The land tha ....
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.... the Government freed blacks from slavery, very few blacks knew how to read and write. The ones that knew how, found jobs, but that left around one million black people homeless. With the destruction to the south was so bad it left two million white people homeless. It was hard to find a job the moved out west to Oklahoma to work for miners and Sharecroppers. When the government had taken away the Indian's land, they had no jobs or a way to make money. So they too were disp ....
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