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Ch 6 Vocab Terms
The South and West transformed 1865-1990
Question | Answer |
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1.Cash Crop | Crop grown for sale |
2.Farmers' Alliance | Network of farmers' organizations that worked for politcal and economic reforms in the late 1800s |
3.Civil Rights Act of 1875 | Law that banned discrimination in publicfacilities 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 | Belonged to the Hunkpapa band, one of seven Lakota Sioux groups that lived by hunting buffalo |
7.Battle of Little Big Horn | 1876 battle in which the Sioux defeated U.S. Army troops |
8.Wounded Knee | 1890 confronttation between U.S. cavalry and Sioux that marketed the end of Indian resistance |
9.Assimilate | To be absorbed into the main culture of a society |
10.Dawes General Allotment Act | 1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots |
11.Vigilante | Self-appointed law enforcer |
12.Transcontinental Railroad | rail link between the eastern and the westerns United States |
13.Land Grant | Land designated by the federal government for building schools, roads, or railroads |
14.Open Range | Vast area of grassland on which livestock roamed and grazed |
15.Homestead Act | 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years |
16.Exodusters | African Americans who migrated from the South to the West after the Civil War |