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Unit 6 vocabularies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cash crop | crops that farmers didn't grew for themself but to be sold for cash |
| Farmer's Alliance | farmers began to organize and negotiate as a group |
| Civil Rights Act of 1875 | guaranteed blacks to ride the bus and use hotels |
| reservations | specific areas set aside b the government for the Indian's use |
| Sand Creek Massacre | Sioux Indians fought for their civil rights, |
| Battle of the Little Big Horn | Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull fought against American troops, killed all of Cluster men |
| Dawes General Allotment Act | replaced the reservation system with an allotment system |
| vigilantes | self-appointed law enforcers who punished la-breakers |
| land grants | giving builders wide stretches of land |
| transcontinental railroad | a rail link between the East and the West |
| open-range ssystem | owner marked the cattles so they could be identified |
| Homestead Act | government offered farm plots of 160 acres to anyone willing to live n the land for five years, dig a well, and built a road |
| Exodusters | a group of African AAmericans |
| assimilated | to adopt an others culture and civilization |
| Wounded Knee | Indians fought against Americans because of their religion |