. A history of the United States of America, its people, and its institutions. leveland received one hundred and sixty-eightand Harrison two hundred and thirty-three electoral votes. 6. Benjamin Matrtsons Hbmtnistration. The Oklahoma Opening-.—In the beginning of Presi-dent Harrisons ^ administration the Territory of Oklahomawas opened to white settlers. Oklahoma was a large tract, ofover thirty-nine thousand square miles, in the western partof the former Indian Territory. The central section of itwas purchased from the Indians, and settlers were permit-ted to enter it at noon on April 22, 188
. A history of the United States of America, its people, and its institutions. leveland received one hundred and sixty-eightand Harrison two hundred and thirty-three electoral votes. 6. Benjamin Matrtsons Hbmtnistration. The Oklahoma Opening-.—In the beginning of Presi-dent Harrisons ^ administration the Territory of Oklahomawas opened to white settlers. Oklahoma was a large tract, ofover thirty-nine thousand square miles, in the western partof the former Indian Territory. The central section of itwas purchased from the Indians, and settlers were permit-ted to enter it at noon on April 22, 1889, at which hour somefifty thousand persons were waiting to take up claims under ^ Benjamin Harrison was born in Ohio in 1833. Kis great-grand-father was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, andhis grandfather President of the United States in 1840. He graduatedin 1852 from Miami University, studied law, and in 1862 entered thearmy as second lieutenant of Indiana volunteers, ending as brevetbrigadier-general. In 1880 he was elected United States BENJAMIN HARRISONS ADMINISTRATION. 439 the land laws of the United States. When the signal wasgiven by a bugle blast there was a wild rush across the border,and before night much of the terri-tory v/as staked out in claims, andseveral towns were begun. In 1890the new Territory had over sixty-onethousand population. Oklahoma Avasafterwards largely increased in sizeby the purchase of lands in the northand west of Indian Territory. New States.—The same year(1889) was marked by a notableaddition to the number of States, benjamin less than four new States being admitted to the Union. These were North Dakota, SouthDakota, Montana, and Washington. In 1890 two otherStates, Idaho and Wyoming, were admitted. No equaladdition to our family of States had been made in any pre-vious administration. The Johnstown Flood.—Shortly after Harrison took hisseat a terrible disaster occurred in Central Pennsylvani
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