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Chapter 6 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cash crop | Crops grown for sale. |
| Farmers' Alliance | A network of farmers' organizations that worked for politcal and economic reforms in the late 1800s. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1875 | A law that banned discrimination in public facilties and transportation. |
| resveration | Public lands where native americans were forceed to live by the federal government. |
| Sand Creek Massacre | A 1864 incident in which Colorado militia killed a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho indians. |
| Battle of Little Big Horn | A 1876 battle in in which the Sioux defeated U.S. army troops. |
| Wounded Knee | A 1890 confrontation between the U.S. cavalry and Sioux that marked the end of the indian resistance. |
| assimilate | To be absorbed into the main culture of a society. |
| Dawes General Allotment Act | A 1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots. |
| vigilante | Self-appointed law enforcer. |
| transcontinenal railroad | A rail link between the eastern and the western U.S. |
| land grant | Land designated by the federal government for building schools, roads, or railroads. |
| open range system | A way to let cattle graze where ever they want as long as the ranchers brand was on the cow proving ownership. |
| Homestead Act | A 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citzens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years. |
| Exodusters | African Americans who migrated from the south to the west after the civil war. |