Oklahoma Enabling Act

Oklahoma Enabling Act
Other short titles	Statehood Act of 1906
Long title	An Act to enable the people of Oklahoma and of the Indian Territory to form a constitution and State government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States; and to enable the people of New Mexico and of Arizona to form a constitution and State government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States.
Nicknames	Oklahoma Enabling Act of 1906
Enacted by	the 59th United States Congress
Effective	June 16, 1906
Citations
Public law	59-234 (1st session)
Statutes at Large	34 Stat. 267
Codification
Titles amended	43 U.S.C.: Public Lands
U.S.C. sections created	43 U.S.C. ch. 22 § 944
Legislative history
	Introduced in the House as H.R. 12707 by Edward L. Hamilton (R–MI) on January 22, 1906; Committee consideration by House Committee on Territories, Senate Committee on Territories; Passed the House on January 25, 1906 (195-150); Passed the Senate on March 9, 1906 (42-29); Reported by the joint conference committee on June 13, 1906; agreed to by the House on June 14, 1906 (Agreed) and by the Senate on June 15, 1906 (Agreed); Signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt on June 16, 1906;
United States Supreme Court cases
	Sharp v. Murphy; McGirt v. Oklahoma

The Enabling Act of 1906, in its first part, empowered the people residing in Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory to elect delegates to a state constitutional convention and subsequently to be admitted to the union as a single state.

The act, in its second part, also enabled the people of New Mexico Territory and of Arizona Territory to form a constitution and State government and be admitted into the Union, requiring a referendum to determine if both territories should be admitted as a single state.