Question

Prompt

When the 1905 Sequoyah Convention ratified their state constitution and submitted it to Congress, Congress chose to ignore it. Do you feel this was the right decision? If you had been a member of Congress in 1905, would you have voted to ratify the Sequoyah Constitution, voted against it, or tried to have it tabled? Defend your choice. ​

Answer 1

Turnout was light, with 56,279 votes for the constitution and petition to Congress and 9,073 votes against. Early in the Fifty-ninth Congress, Rep. Arthur Phillips Murphy of Missouri, who also acted as attorney for the Creek Nation, and Sen. Porter James McCumber of North Dakota filed Sequoyah statehood bills, which Congress refused to consider.

Step-by-step explanation:

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