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The South and West
Chapter 6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Farmers Alliance | network of framers organization that worked for political and economic reforms in the 1800s |
| Civil Rights act of 1875 | They guaranteed black patrons the right to ride trains and use public facilities such as hotels |
| Reservation | specific areas set aside by the government for the Indianans use |
| Sand Creek massacre (1864) | Incident in which Colorado militia killed a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians |
| Battle of little horn 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 Indiana resistance |
| Assimilate | To be absorbed in to main culture of a society |
| Dawes General Allotment act (1887) | law that divide reservation land into private family plots |
| Vigilantes | self appointed law enforces |
| Transcontinental Railroad | A rail link between the east and the west |
| Land grant | land designed by the federal government for building schools ,road and railroads |
| Open Range system | vast areas of grassland of which live-stock roamed and grazed |
| Homestead act (1862) | law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years |
| Exoduters | African American who migrants from the south to the west after the civil war |
| Cash Crop | Crop grown for sale |
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