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vocablary 6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1. cash crop | a crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower. |
| 2. farmer alliance | an umbrella term for several grassroots farmers organizations active between 1877 and 1892, most prominently in the South and the Plains states |
| 3. civil right act of 1875 | was a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction Era that guaranteed African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and prohibited exclusion from jury service. |
| 4. reservation | a qualification to an expression of agreement or approval; a doubt. |
| 5. sand creek massacre | n incident in the Indian Wars of the United States that occurred on November 29, 1864, when Colorado Territory militia attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho encamped on the eastern plains |
| 6. battle of the little big horn | he Battle of the Little Bighorn, commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. |
| 7. wounded knee assimilate | A creek of southwest South Dakota. Some 200 Native Americans were massacred here by U.S. troops on December 29, 1890. In 1973 a standoff between Indian activists and U.S. law officers resulted in deaths on both sides. |
| 8. Dawes general allotment act | adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. |
| 9. land grant | a grant of public land, to an institution, organization, or to particular groups of people |
| 10. homestead act | a person's or family's residence, which comprises the land, house, and outbuildings, and in most states is exempt from forced sale for collection of debt. |
| 11. exoduster | a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century, as part of the Exoduster Movement or Exodus of 1879 |
| 12. open system range | an area wherein livestock may lawfully be permitted to run at large |
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