Oklahoma PASS Objectives

The student will:

1. Demonstrate process skills in social studies.
    
2. Describe both European and American exploration and claims to the territory that would become Oklahoma.
    
3. Evaluate the social, economic, and political development and contributions of Native Americans from prehistoric settlement through modern times.
    
4. Evaluate the major political and economic events prior to statehood.
    
5. Describe the development of constitutional government in Oklahoma.
    
6. Investigate the geography and economic assets of Oklahoma and trace their effects on the history of the state.
    
7. Examine major cultural and ethnic groups represented in Oklahoma.
    
8. Examine factors that contributed to the political, economic, and social history of Oklahoma during the twentieth century.

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PASS Standards

Standard 1. The student will demonstrate process skills in social studies.

1. Identify, analyze, and interpret primary and secondary sources (e.g., artifacts, diaries, letters, art, music, literature, photographs, documents, newspapers, and contemporary media).

2. Identify, evaluate, and explain the relationships between the geography of Oklahoma and its historical development by using different kinds of maps, graphs, charts, diagrams, and other representations such as photographs, satellite-produced images, and computer-based technologies.

3. Interpret information from a broad selection of research materials (e.g., encyclopedias, almanacs, dictionaries, atlases, and cartoons).

4. Construct and examine timelines of Oklahoma history (e.g., removal and relocation of Native American groups, economic cycles, immigration patterns, and the results of redistricting and statewide elections).

1. Explain the significance of early Spanish and French expeditions (e.g., Coronado, Onate, and LaHarpe).

2. Evaluate the lasting impact of American exploration, including the Pike, Wilkinson, and Long expeditions.

3. Analyze the impact of territorial claims on the development of the state of Oklahoma, including the Louisiana Purchase and Adams-Onis Treaty.

1. Identify and describe significant phases of prehistoric cultures, including the Paleo Indians (Clovis points), Archaic Indians (Folsom points), the Mound Builders, and the Plains Tribes.

2. Trace the movement of other North American peoples into present-day Oklahoma, including the Five Tribes, Plains Tribes, and Eastern Tribes.

3. Compare and contrast cultural perspectives (e.g., land ownership and use, agricultural methods, production and distribution of commodities, and trading practices) of Native Americans and European Americans.

4. Identify significant historical and contemporary Native Americans (e.g., John Ross, Sequoyah, Quanah Parker, Jim Thorpe, Will Rogers, the Five Indian Ballerinas, the Kiowa Five, and Wilma Mankiller).

1. Analyze tribal alliances, river transportation, and the fur trade, and their relationship to early mercantile settlements (e.g., Fort Towson, Fort Gibson, Fort Coffee, Fort Washita, and Chouteau's Trading Post).

2. Explain the significance of the Civil War in Indian Territory and the prominent figures and groups that fought in its battles (e.g., Stand Watie, General James Blunt, General Douglas Cooper, and the 1st Kansas Colored Regiment).

3. Assess the impact of the cattle industry (e.g., cattle trails, railheads and cow towns in Kansas, and the location of railroad lines).

4. Evaluate the impact and importance of the various means of distributing land in Oklahoma (e.g., allotments, land runs, lottery, and Supreme Court settlement).

1. Examine the work of the Dawes Commission and the distribution of lands to non-Native American settlers.

2. Analyze the development of governments among the Native American tribes; the movement towards the all-Indian state of Sequoyah; the movement for single statehood; and the impact and influence of the Enabling Act and the Constitutional Convention.

1. Locate the significant physical and human features of the state on a map (e.g., major waterways, cities, natural resources, military installations, major highways, and major landform regions).

2. Examine how economic cycles (e.g., the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, and oil boom and bust) have affected and continue to affect major sectors of state employment (e.g., fossil fuels, timber, mining, tourism, the military, and agriculture).

1. Identify cultural and ethnic groups in Oklahoma (e.g., African Americans, Eastern Europeans, Italians, Germans, and Vietnamese) and explore the causes and effects of their immigration and settlement patterns.

2. Trace the cultural, political, and economic contributions of these groups.

1. Identify significant individuals and their contributions (e.g., Jerome Tiger, Frank Phillips, Kate Barnard, Angie Debo, Ada Lois Sipuel, Clara Luper, George Lynn Cross, Ralph Ellison, Robert S. Kerr, Henry Bellmon, and Reba McEntire).

2. Analyze the impact of the Populist Movement, the Temperance Movement, the Dust Bowl, and political corruption (e.g., Ku Klux Klan activities; the prosecutions and convictions of Governor David Hall and the county commissioners) on Oklahoma history.

3. Examine the historical evolution of race relations in Oklahoma (e.g., the significance of Jim Crow laws, the Tulsa Race Riot, and the contributions of Governor Raymond Gary to the peaceful integration of public facilities).