Chapter 6 Vocab Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
1.Cash Crop | Crop grown for sale,(cotton,tobacco,grain) |
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.Battle of Little Bighorn | 1876 battle in which the Sioux defeated u.s army troops. |
7.Wounded Knee | 1890 confrontation between u.s. cavalry and Sioux that marked end of Indian resistance. |
8.Assimilate | To be absorbed into the main culture of a society. |
9.Dawes General Allotment Act | 1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots. |
10.Vigilante | Self appointed law enforcer. |
11.Transcontinental RR | Rail Link between the eastern and the western united States. |
12.Land Grant | Land designated by the federal government fro building schools, roads, or railroads |
13.Open Range System | Property that was not fenced in. |
14.Homestead Act | 1862 law that gave 160 acers of land to citizens willing to live on it and cultivate it for five years. |
15.Exodusters | African Americans who migrated from the south to west after the civil war. |
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