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Chapter 6
17 Words
Question | Answer |
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1. Cash Crop | Crop grown for sale. |
2. Farmers' Alliance | Network of farmers' organizations that worked for political and economic reforms in the late 1800s. |
3. Civil Rights Act of 1875 | Law that banned discrimination in public facilities and transportation. |
4.Reservation | Public lands where Native Americans were forced to live by the federal government. |
5. Sand Creek Massacre | 1864 incident in which Colorado militia killed a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians. |
6. Sitting Bull | Sioux leader who tried driving out the prospectors. |
7. Battle of the Little Big Horn | 1876 battle in which the Sioux defeated U.S. Army troops |
8. Chief Joesph | Perces's leaders who led a group of refugees on a trek to Canada. |
9. Wounded Knee | 1890 confrontation between U.S. cavalry and Sioux that marked the end of Indian resistance. |
10. Assimilate | To be absorbed into the main culture of a society. |
11. Dawes General Allotment Act | 1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots. |
12. Vigilante | Self appointed law enforcer. |
13. Transcontinental Railroad | Rail link between the eastern and western United States. |
14. Land Grant | Land designated by the federal government for building schools, roads, or railroads. |
15. Open Range System | Vast area of grassland on which livestock roamed and grazed. |
16. Homestead Act | 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years. |
17. Exodusters | African Americans who migrated from the south to the west after the Civil War. |