<em>Responses may vary but should include some or all of the following information: </em>The first land run occurred on April 22, 1889. All land grants were claimed within a few hours. An estimated 11,000 homestead claims were made that day. It is estimated that 50,000 to 100,000 boomers participated. These boomers were called eighty-niners. The land run was chaotic and difficult, with many people rushing to claim land or buy lots in railway townships. This boom in population helped pave the way for Oklahoma to become a state.
The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 was the first land rush into the Unassigned Lands. It was considered to have some of the best unoccupied public land in the United States. But it quickly lead to Oklahoma territory under the Organic Act of 1890 and became the 46th state of the United States.
Effects:
-States was opened to homestead on a first-arrival basis
Gender divisions of labor emerged during the industrial
revolution because new home economics theories propose that females are the
ones responsible for the housework and men dominate waged labor for the reason
that labor concentration make the most of the effectiveness of the entire
family component.
