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Chapter 6 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cash Crop | Crop grown for sale |
| Farmers' Alliance | Network of farmers' organizations that worked for political and economic reforms in the late 1800s |
| 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 | 1864 incident in which Colorado militia killed a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians |
| Battle of the Little Big Horn | 1876 battle which the Sioux defeated U.S. Army troops |
| Wounded Knee Assimilate | 1890 confrontation between U.S. cavalry and Sioux that marked the end of Indian resistance |
| Dawes General Allotment Act | 1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots |
| Vigilante | Self-appointed law enforcer |
| Transcontinental Railroad | Rail link between the eastern and the western United States |
| Land Grant Open-Range System | Land designated by the federal government for building schools, roads, or railroads |
| Homestead Act | 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years |
| Exoduster | African Americans who migrated from the South to the West after the Civil War |