Moving Companies in Oklahoma (OK)

OKLAHOMA

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Here is a brief introduction to the state of Oklahoma.

Capital City: Oklahoma City
Nicknames: Sooner State, Boomer State

Population over 3.5 million residents

State’s Flag: Oklahoma’s flag shows an Osage warrior’s shield adorned with eagle feathers. A peace pipe and an olive branch-both symbols of peace-cross the shield. The flag was adopted in 1925.

A 21^st-century state with an ancient history, Oklahoma is an all-American combination of rolling prairies, high plains, stark buttes, and lush river valleys. For centuries the state was home only to Native Americans; then waves of pioneers transformed it into a land of farms and ranches, as well as a major source of energy.

Oklahoma Territory had been home to the Plains Indians-the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache-and the! Village-dwelling Caddo, Wichita, and Pawnee for hundreds of years. This all changed when the United States took control of the land, part of the Louisiana Purchase, in 1803. In order to open up the southeastern and east central areas of the U.S. to white settlement, the federal government decided to relocate Indians from those regions to Oklahoma Territory.

Relocation of the Five Civilized Tribes-the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole-began in the 1820s. By 1830 all Indians who lived east of the Mississippi River had been ordered to move into the designated territory. The forced migrations were heartbreaking enough, but one in particular has remained infamous. A Cherokee migration, later to be known as the Trail of Tears, was carried out during the winter of 1838-39. It claimed the lives of some 4,000 Cherokee Indians who died of hunger and disease.

As Indians were pushed onto ever-shrinking parcels of land, white settlers waited to participate in government-supervised land rushes. On the morning of April 22, 1889, thousands of hopeful homesteaders stood just outside the boundaries of the unassigned territories. At noon a signal was given, and they surged across the borders to claim the coveted 160-acre homestead parcels. By nightfall the lucky ones were setting up temporary camps. Oklahoma City, previously just a train depot, became a community of 10,000 people by the end of the day.

In 1890 Oklahoma Territory is established, including panhandle. In 1893 Indian nations are divided; land is allocated to individual Indians and white settlers. In 1907 Oklahoma joins the Union as 46^th state. In 1930’s depression and drought ruin Oklahoma’s farmers. In 1959 statewide prohibition of liquor sales is repealed. In 1971 Arkansas-Verdigris waterway connects Muskogee and Tulsa s to the Mississippi River. In 1987 Twenty-nine banks fail. In 1990 Oklahoma is first state to limit state legislators’ terms. In 1995 Terrorist bomb blows up federal building in Oklahoma City and kills 168 people.

Service industries: Wholesale and retail trade; community, business, and personal services; finance.

Manufacturing: Machinery, transportation equipment.

Mining: Natural gas, petroleum, iodine, coal, crushed stone.

Agriculture: Beef cattle, wheat, hay.

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