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Chap. 6 vocab U.S.
Question | Answer |
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1.cash crop | cotton and tobacco sold for cash instead of used. |
2.farmers' alliance | an alliance used to lower the cost of railroads to import and export crops |
3.civil acts right of 1875 | allowed black people to use the train and rent a hotel room |
4.reservation | a specific area set aside for use of indians |
5.sand creek massacre | round of warefare as indians joined forces to repel white settelment |
6.sitting bull | chief great fighter lived by hunting buffulo hunkpapa famed fighter |
7.battle of the little big horn | killed custer and all 250 of his men |
8.chief joseph | led a group more than 1000 miles to canada |
9.wounded knee | the end location of the ghost dance war |
10.assimilate | adapting the culture and civilization of whites |
11.dawes general allotment act | each indian was granted a 160 acre farmstead |
12.vigilante | self appointed law enforcers |
13.transcontinental railroad | a railroad that connects the east to the west |
14.land grant | gives builders large stretches of land |
15.open range system | property that is not fenced in |
16.homestead act | 1862- allowed anyone 160 acres to anyone willing to live obn the land for 5 years, build a well, and a road |
17.exodusters | a group of black people who went to kansas and oklahoma where they planted crops and founded many black-towns |