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Chapter 6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1. Cash Crop | Crop grown for sale |
| 2. Farmers alliance | Network of farmers that worked for political and economic reforms |
| 3. Civil Rights Act of 1875 | law that banned discrimination in public facilities |
| 4. Reservation | Public land where native americans were forced to live |
| 5. Sand Creek Massacre | 1864 massacre where colorado militia killed cheyenne and arapho indians |
| 6. Battle of Little big horn | 1876 battle where sioux defeated the U.S. army troops |
| 7. Wounded knee assimilate | 1890 confrontation between U.S. and sioux that ended Indian resistance |
| 8. Dawes general allotment act | 1887 law that divided reservation into private plots |
| 9. Vigilante | self-appointed law maker |
| 10. Transcontinental railroad | rail link between east and west U.S. |
| 11. Land Grant | Land designated for building schools, roads, or railroads |
| 12. Open-Range system | vast grassland where livestock roamed and grazed |
| 13. Homestead act | 1862 law that gives 160 acres of land to someone who is willing to stay there and maintain it for 5 years |
| 14. Exoduster | African-Americans who migrated form the south to the west after the civil war |