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Vocabulary
Chapter 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. Cash Crop | crop designed for sale |
| 2. Farmers Alliance | a group of farmers that worked together in social and economic reforms |
| 3. Civil Rights Act of 1875 | law that banned discrimination in public facilities and transportation |
| 4. reservation | lands where Native Americans were forced to live by the federal government |
| 5. Sand Creek Massacre | 1864 Colorado militia killed a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians |
| 6. Battle of little big horn | 1879 battle where Sioux defended U.S. Army |
| 7. Wounded knee | 1890 cavalry and Sioux that marked end of Indian resistance |
| 8. Dawes General Allotment Act | law that divided reservation land into private family land |
| 9. vigilante | self appointed law officer |
| 10. Transcontinental Railroad | railroad that links Eastern and western America |
| 11. Land Grant | land given by the government to school, roads, and buildings |
| 12. open-range system | large area where cattle roamed |
| 13. Homestead Act | act that gave 160 acres of land to any person who was willing to tend to it for five years |
| 14. Exoduster | African Americans that traveled from the South to the West after the Civil War |
| 15. Assimilate | to be absorbed into the main culture of society |