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Chapter 6 Vocabular
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cash Crop | crop grown for sale |
| Farmers' Alliance | network of farmers' organization that worked for political and economic reforms |
| Civil Rights Act of 1875 | Confress's enactment that guaranteed black patrons the right to ride trains and use public facilities as hotels |
| Reservations | specific areas set aside by the government for the Indians' use |
| Sand Creek Massacre | 1864 incident in which Colorado militia killed a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians |
| Sitting Bull | |
| Battle of the Little Big Horn | 1876 battle in which the Sioux defeated U.S. Army troops |
| Wounded Knee | 1890 confrontation between the U.S calvary and Sioux that marked the end of the Indian resistance |
| assimilate | the idians would turn into farmers |
| Dawes General Allotment Act | 1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots |
| Vigilantes | salf-appointed law enforcers that punished lawbreakers |
| Transcontinental Railroad | a rail link between the East and the West |
| Land Grants | giving builders wide stretches of land |
| Open-range system | property not fenced in for the cattle |
| Homestead Act | passed in 1862 the government offered farm plots of 160 acres to anyone willing to live on the land for 5 years |
| Exodusters | African Americans who migrated from the South to the West after the Civil War |
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