Oklahoma

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Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America.

[edit] Oklahoma in Southern Victory

Sequoyah was the former Indian Territory. Following the War of Secession, it joined the Confederate States, eventually becoming a state. Its population was mostly Native Americans, and the Richmond government ensured that white settlement was kept to a minimum. Sequoyah did well enough for itself under the Stars and Bars.

Between the War of Secession and the turn of the century, various tribes based in Sequoyah raided Kansas. The frustration felt in the United States with the Confederacy's complicity in these raids helped fuel the outrage that led to the Second Mexican War.

During the Great War, Sequoyah became an active front as the United States Army overran the state between 1914-17. The U.S. annexed the state but unlike Kentucky and Houston, which were admitted back into the Union, Sequoyah remained "occupied territory". The U.S. government encouraged immigration into the state in order to manufacture popular support.

When the Freedom Party grew in strength in the C.S., Sequoyah saw a branch of the Party gain momentum and votes. However, due to the heavy immigration of U.S. citizens, it was the only contested territory to remain under U.S. control following the plebisciteas mandated in the Richmond Agreement. During the Second Great War, Confederate-backed guerillas were active against the American garrison, but it was not as active a front as in the Great War. It was a "bloody mess", in the words of Angelo Toricelli, and would "continue going on that way for years".

Sequoyah was an important state economically, because it contains much of the U.S. oil reserves.

The popular Broadway musical Oh--Sequoyah! was written about the state.

[edit] Oklahoma in The Guns of the South

Indian Territory was ceded by the United States to the Confederate States after the latter won the Second American Revolution.