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Chapter 6
Question | Answer |
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Cash crop | crop grown for sale. |
Farmers Alliance | local organization linked together such as farmers from the south and the west joining together. |
Civil Rights Act of 1875 | law that banned discrimination in public facilities and transportation. |
reservations | specific area 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. |
Battle of the Little Big Horn | 1876 battle in which the Sioux defeated U.S. Army Troops. |
wounded Knee | 1890 confrontation between U.S. cavalry and Sioux that marked the end of Indians resistance. |
assilmilate | to be observed in a main culture of a society. |
Dawes General Allotment Act | replaced the reservation system with an allotment system in 1887 |
vigilante | self-appointed law enforcers punished law breakers. |
transcontinental railroad | a rail linked to the east and the west. |
land grant | giving builders wide stretches of land. |
open range system | vast area of grasslands where livestock roam and graze. |
Homestead Act | 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for 5 years. |
Exodusters | African Americans who migrated from the south to the west after the Civil War. |