What was the Oklahoma Enabling Act?

Question

It was on June 16, 1906. I have to do this for my government class so if someone could give me some information on where I can find the asnwer I would really appreciate it!!

I have a copy of the Oklahoma Enabling Act but Im not sure how to summarize it.

My homework question is "What was the act?"

Answer 1

It was a grant of lands for schools in exchange of Indian Territory lands. And, most of all was a controversy concerning single Oklahoma statehood or admission as two states (one formed from Oklahoma territory and another formed from the mentioned Indian territory).

Here's more information for you:

www.digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/E/EN001.html

-And also:

www.clo.state.ok.us/OKLAHOMAENABLINGACTsections7thru12.pdf

-(I wish you all my best and hope this was good enough for your search)-

Answer 2

Oklahoma Enabling Act

Answer 3

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Statehood A controversy concerning single Oklahoma statehood or admission as two states (one formed from Oklahoma Territory and one from Indian Territory) proceeded throughout the 1890s and into the first years of the twentieth century. After the introduction of a bill for admitting Indian Territory as the State of Sequoyah sank in Congress in December 1905-January 1906, Pres. Theodore Roosevelt recommended joint statehood. In the Fifty-ninth Congress seven bills were introduced to accomplish this. The issue was complicated by a proposal to admit the territories of Arizona and New Mexico as one state. This latter was a sticking point, and considerable controversy surrounded the writing of a suitable bill. A compromise achieved in early June 1906 provided for the admission of Arizona and New Mexico as one state, if their populations so agreed in separate elections, and admission of Oklahoma and Indian Territory as one, upon writing and ratifying a constitution. The Senate approved on June 13, the House on June 14, and the president on June 16. The movement for statehood thus culminated in June 1906 with the passage of the Enabling Bill, setting in motion the process of establishing constitutional state government. The Enabling Act empowered the people of the Oklahoma and Indian territories to elect delegates to a constitutional convention and set up a state capital temporarily at Guthrie, in former Oklahoma Territory. The capital was to remain at Guthrie until 1913 and thereafter would be located permanently by electors chosen at a statewide election that would be called by the legislature.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

VI. CONSTITUTION, LAWS ETC.
EXCERPT:
When the Congress of the United States passed what is known as the enabling act, enabling the people of Oklahoma and of Indian Territory to form a constitution and be admitted to the Union, it was provided in said act: "That perfect toleration of religious sentiment shall be secured and that no inhabitant of the State shall ever be molested in person or property on account of his or her mode of religious worship and that polygamous or plural marriages are forever prohibited". The Constitution of the State provides for the freedom of worship in the same language as quoted above but provides further:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11230c.htm
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OPEN THE LINK FOR THE ENTIRE ACT.

Answer 6

http://www.clo.state.ok.us/OKLAHOMAENABLINGACTSections7thru12.pdf