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How did former slaves of Indigenous Tribes acquire land?
The Dawes Act
The Voting Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act
The Safer Communities Act
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J.B. Stradford
Lawyer and Activist
Former slave in Kentucky
All of the above
Built a 55 room luxury hotel
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Inferior
Bigger than life
of little or less importance, value, or merit
smaller than an ant
acting foolishly
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How many estimated Black residence of Greenwood were killed?
100
200
300
1000
5
Socially-conscious mindset means
to be deeply aware of people around you in society
To have a lot of friends
To be an extrovert
To have a social life
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How many houses were destroyed?
100
400
1000
300
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Entrpreneur is...
an interesting person
A person with a lot of knowledge about a lot of things
A person who lends out products
A person who organizes and operates a business
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Resilient
To segregate schools
To create a hostile environment
able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions
Able but and sell houses at a low price
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Prosperous
Owing the bank money
Having very little success
Loaning your friends money
successful in material terms; flourishing financially
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What was the population at the time?
100
100000
1000
10000
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) helped...
helped buy new cars for people in Greenwood
buy a bank
burn down Greenwood
helped rebuild Greenwood
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Proliferate
to subtract
to rapidly increase in numbers
to carry the remainder
to divide
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Decended
spin in a circle
move or fall downward
Move upward
Jump up and down
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What was Gurley's vision
To build the biggest city in Oklahoma
To build the most successful business in the world
to create something for Black people by Black people
To buy as many businesses as possible
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Enabled
To open up a business and sell popular items
give (someone or something) the authority or means to do something
to buy products from one big businesses
To give people only enough to eat (and no more)
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Statehood
the status of being a state of the US
the state of living in a neighborhood
Buying a home in a particular state
To say something loudly
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O.W. Gurley was credited with having the first...
mansion with a pool
the first Black business in Greenwood in 1906
gas powered car
pet snake
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A.J. Smitherman founded
The New York Times
St. Judes children's hospital
The Oklahoma Times
The Tulsa Star
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Demographics
creating a mixed tape
Using graph paper
Listening to artists on TikTok
the statistical characteristics of human populations (age, race, etc)
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How many time is it estimated that money changed hands before it left the Greenwood community?
25
29
19
9
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Who was O.W. Gurley?
A former slave owner who gave land to his former slaves
The inventor of the gurdle
A Black land owner who purchased 40 acres and called it Greenwood
A sharecropper who bought and sold crops
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Greenwood was built on...
Private Property
Commercially funded
State funded land
Indian Territory
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Assimilation
Allowing others to live teir life and be who they want to be
taking individuals/social groups and absorbing them into mainstream culture
Segregating people based on race or religion
Creating an inclusive society
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Prominent
unimportant
creative
anonymous
Important or famous
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Sharecropper
Selling stocks
Buying stocks
Selling land as a real estate agent and making a profit
landlord allows tenants to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop
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Jim Crow Laws
Laws prohibiting birds as pets
Laws that only required people named "Jim" to follow
state and local laws enforcing racial segregation
Laws that protected crows because they are endangered
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O.W. Gurley loaned money to who? why?
Loaned money to his mother because she couldn't pay her bills.
Loaned money to other Black entrepreneurs so they could open up a business
Loaned money to his brother to buy a car
Loaned money to banks because he was so rich
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Encompass means
Includes
Reads
Creates
Disqualifies
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Compensate
to aquire something by robbing and stealing
give someone something, money, in recognition of loss or suffering
to donate money to a charity
to own someone money
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Between 1865 and 1920, how many townships were founded by Black Americans in Oklahoma?
More than 60
More than 100
More than 50
Less than 50
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The Tulsa Star
all of the above
informed Black people of their legal rights
was a Black newspaper headquartered in Greenwood
became and important influence in establishing a socially-concious mindeset
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Discriminate
To ensure every child has food, water, and shelter
To provide the same medical care for everyone
an unjust distinction in the treatment of different categories of people
To treat every person with respect
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Emancipation
process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions
include comprehensively
a strong belief that something will happen or be the case in the future.
clever at achieving one's aims by indirect or deceitful methods
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Where were the largest Black townships located after the Civil War?
Texas
Colorado
Alabama
Oklahoma
