Identifier: universityofcaliv6univ (find matches)
Title: University of California publications in history
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: University of California, Berkeley. cn California. University
Subjects: History
Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : The University Press
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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e assured. Doubtless many people in the far South still wished ito keep the south-central route to the Pacific blocked so that the southernmost route might command wider support, but the peo-ple in the middle South began in 185-1 to try to break throughthe barrier on their west. From the first proposal to repeal the Missouri Compromiseto the opening of the Civil War, repeated efforts were made toopen the territory of the present state of Oklahoma, which wasthen for the first time a recognized unit. The need of opentrade routes through this region, rather than the demand foradditional agricultural land, was given as the justification ofthe proposed change. As the people of the South were compelledafter 1854 to devote their energies more and more to the defenseof slavery, the movement made little progress. On February 20, 1854, as soon as the lines were drawn inthe Senate in the contest over the repeal of the Missouri Com-promise, Senator Johnson introduced his bill for the organiza- !f
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Three Territories Proposed 47 tion of the country west of Arkansas.1 Douglas had alreadycommitted himself to the opening of this country if the senatorsfrom Arkansas wished it,2 and on July 28, 1854, the SenateCommittee on Territories reported Johnsons bill favorably.3 The bill provided for the organization of three territories,one for each of the nations as then constituted, to be known asChelokee, Muscogee, and Chahta,4, with their capitals respec-tively at Tahlequah, Creek Agency, and Doaksville. No territorywas to be established without the consent of the Indians con-cerned, and it was hoped that the Quapaw, Seneca-Shawnee, andSeneca bands could be induced to join the Chelokees. Thegovernors of the territories were to be chosen by the Indians,who were also to control their own lands and citizenship. UnitedStates courts were to be established, and were to have civilandcriminal jurisdiction; but the local or Indian courts were to beleft in full control of cases between Indians and o

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