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Ch. 6 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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1.cash crop | crops grown to be sold..ie tabacco, cotton |
2.Farmers' Alliance | an organization where farmers congregated and negociate for lower priced supplies |
3.Civil Rights Act of 1875 | guaranteed blacks the right to ride trains and use public facilities |
4.reservation | specific ares given to indians by the government |
5.Sand Creek Massacre | 1864 incident with Americans fought indians |
6.Sitting bull | chief that led native americans in driving out americans who were on their land |
7.Battle of the Little Big Horn | 1876 battle in which the Sioux defeated U.S. army troops |
8.Chief Joseph | leader of the of the Nez Perces |
9.Wounded Knee | 1890 conrontation between U.S. calvary and sioux that markedthe end of resistance |
10.assimilate | to be absorbed into the main cultureof 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 | first railroad to connect the eastern and western United States |
14.land grant | land designed by the federal government for building schools, roads, and railroads |
15.open range system | vast area of grassland on which livestock roamed and grazed |
16.Homestead Act | 1862 law gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live and cultivate it for 5 years |
17.Exodusters | African Americans wo migrated from the south to the west after the civil war |