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U.S History
Chapter 6 vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Assimilate | To take in and incorporate as one's own |
| Battle of Little Bighorn | Battle in Montana between the United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of native Americans. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1875 | Federal law that prohibited discrimination in public accommodations. |
| Exodusters | Name given to African Americans who fled the southern United States for Kansas in 1879 and 1880 |
| Farmers Alliance | Organized economic movement among U.S. farmers that flourished in the 1880's. |
| Homestead Act | Act passed by the us congress in 1862 making available to settlers 160-acre tracts of public land for cultivation. |
| Land Grant | A tract of land given by the government. |
| Open-Range System | Area where livestock may roam at large. |
| Reservation | A tract of public land set apart for a special purpose |
| Sand Creek Massacre | Surprise attack by the us troops on a Cheyenne camp. |
| Transcontinental Railroad | Train route across the united states finished in 1869. |
| Vigilant | Keenly watchful to detect danger; wary |
| Wounded knee | Village in south-west, South Dakota: site of massacre of about 300 Oglala Sioux Indians on December 29,1890 |
| Cash Crops | A crop for direct sale in market. |
| Dawes General Allotment Act | Land-distribution law as a way to "civilize" ans make farmers of the American Indians. |