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US History Chapter 6
Question | Answer |
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1. cash crop | crops which were grown to be sold for cash |
2. Farmers' Alliance | Texas farmers began to organize and to negotiate as a group for lower prices for supplies |
3. Civil Rights Act of 1875 | guaranteed black patrons the right to ride trains and use public facilities |
4. reservation | specific areas set aside by the government for the Indians' use |
5. Sand Creek Massacre | spawned another round of warfare as Plains Indians joined forces to repel white settlement |
6. Battle of the Little Big Horn | Crazy Horse led the charge killing Custer and all of his men |
7. Wounded Knee | tragic end of the Ghost Dance War sealed the Indians' demise |
8. assimilate | adopting the culture and civilization of whites |
9. Dawes General Allotment Act | replaced the reservation system with an allotment system |
10. vigilante | self-appointed law enforcers |
11. transcontinental railroad | a rail link between the East and the West |
12. land grant | giving builders wide stretches of land |
13. open range system | property was not fenced in |
14. Homestead Act | in 1862, the government offered farm plots of 160 acres to anyone willing to live on the land for five years |
15. Exodusters | Benjamin Singleton founded this group, leading the blacks out of bondage |