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chapter6_vocablist
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1.Cash crop | crop that is grown for sale |
| 2.Farmer's Alliance | networking farmer's organizations that worked for political and economic reforms in the late 1800s |
| 3.Civil Rights Act of 1875 | outlawed discrimination in public areas and employment based on race, religion, or national origin |
| 4.Reservation | public land areas where Native Americans were forced to live by the federal government |
| 5.Battle of the Little Big Horn | battle in 1876 where the Sioux defeated U.S. Army Troops |
| 6. Wounded Knee | confrontation between U.S. cavalry and Sioux in 1890 that marked the end of Indian resistance |
| 7.Assimilate | to be absorbed or mixed in with the main culture of a society |
| 8.Dawes General Allotment Act | law in 1887 that divided reservation land into private family plots |
| 9.Sand Creek Massacre | incident where Colorado militia killed a camp of Cheyenne and Arapho Indians in 1864 |
| 10.Vigilante | self-appointed law enforcer |
| 11.Transcontinental railroad | rail link between the Eastern and Western U.S. |
| 12.Land Grant | land designated by the federal government for building schools, roads, or railroads |
| 13.Open Range System | vast area of grassland where livestock roamed and grazed |
| 14.Homestead Act | law in 1862 that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for 5 years |
| 15.Exodusters | African Americans who migrated from the South to the West after the Civil War |