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Ch. 6
Chapter 6
Term | Definition |
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1. cash crop | crop grown for sale |
2. Farmers' Alliance | network of farmers' organizations that worked for political and economic reforms in the late 1800s |
3. Civil Rights Act of 1875 | guaranteed blacks the right to ride trains and use public facilities such as hotels |
4. reservation | specific areas set aside by the government for Indians' use |
5. Sand Creek Massacre | 1864 incident in which Colorado militia killed a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians |
6. Sitting Bull | chief that hunted buffalo for a living & belonged to the Hunkpapa band, one of the seven Lakota Sioux groups |
7. Battle of the Little Big Horn | 1876 battle in which Sioux defeated U.S. Army troops |
8. Wounded Knee | 1890 confrontation between U.S. cavalry and Sioux that marked the end of Indian resistance |
9. assimilated | to be absorbed into the main culture of a society |
10. Dawes General Allotment Act | 1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots |
11. vigilante | self-appointed law enforcers |
12. transcontinental railroad | a rail link between the East and West |
13. land grants | land designed by the federal government for building schools, roads, or railroads |
14. open-range system | system for raising livestock |
15. Homestead Act | 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years |