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Chapter vocab 6
Term | Definition |
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Cash Crop | a crop grown for sale |
Farmers' Alliance | farmers' organizations who worked for political and economic reforms in the late 1800s |
Civil Rights Act of 1875 | the law that banned discrimination in public facilities and transportation |
Reservation | land where native Americans were forced to live by the u.s. government |
Sand Creek Massacre | Colorado militia killed a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians in 1864 |
Battle of the Little Big Horn | 1876 battle in which the Sioux defeated us army troops |
Wounded Knee | where the tragic end of the ghost dance war took place |
Assimilate | to fit into a main culture of a society |
Dawes General Allotment Act | 1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots |
Vigilante | self-appointed law enforcer |
Transcontinental Railroad | rail link between eastern and western us |
Land Grant | land given by the federal government to build schools, roads, or railroads |
Open Range System | a system developed by the Mexicans for herding cattle, the cattle roams freely and finds its own feed this way property doesn't have to be fenced in |
Homestead Act | 1862 law that gave people land if they were willing to live on it and cultivate it for 5 years |
Exodusters | African Americans who migrated from the south to the west after civil war |