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ohs ch6 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cash crop | A crop meant for making money |
| Farmers' Alliance | When farmers began to organize and to negotiate as a group for lower prices for supplies. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1875 | guaranteed black patrons the right to ride trains and use public facilites |
| reservation | specific areas set aside by the government for the Indians' use |
| Chief Joseph | the Nez Perces's leader |
| Sand Creek Massacre | when Plains Indians joined forces to repel white settlement |
| Wounded Knee | the location that the end of the Ghost Dance War happened |
| Sitting Bull | Chief the in the Sioux nation |
| assimilate | when indians would adopt into national life by adopting the culture and civilation of whites |
| Battle of the Little Big Horn | a charge led by Crazy Horse that killed Custer and all of his men |
| Dawes General Allotment Act | put into place so that assimilation could occur quicker |
| vigilante | self-appointed law officers |
| transcontinental railroad | a rail link between the East and the West |
| land grant | land givin to builders by congress |
| open range system | property was not fenced in |
| Homestead Act | when the government offered farm plots of 160 acres to anyone willing to live on the land for five years, dig a well, and build a road |
| Exodusters | they were African-Americans who planted crops and founded several enduring all-black towns in Kansas and Oklahoma |