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Jarek Chapt. 6 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| cash crops | crop grown for sale |
| Farmers' Alliance | farmers' organizations that worked economic reforms in late 1800's |
| Civil Rights Act of 1875 | law that banned discrimination in public facilities and transportation |
| reservation | public lands where Native Americans were forced to live by the federal government |
| Sand Creek Massacre | Colorado militia killed a camp of Cheynne 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 |
| assimilate | to be absorbed into the main culture of society |
| Dawes General Allotment Act | 1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots |
| vigilante | self-appointed law enforcer |
| Transcontinental Railroad | railroad link between the eastern and western united staes |
| land agent | land designed by the federal goverenment for building schools and roads |
| open range system | vast area of grassland on which livestock roamed and graze |
| Homestead Act | 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to cultivate and live on it for 5 years |
| exodusters | african american who migrated from the south to the west after the civil war |