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Ch.6 history vocab
Question | Answer |
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Cash Crop | Crop grown for sale. |
Farmer's Alliance | Network of farmers' organizations that worked for political and economic reforms in the late 1800's. |
Civil Rights Act of 1875 | Law that established a federal Civil Rights Commission. |
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. |
Sitting Bull | Chief of the Souix. |
Battle of the Little Big Horn | 1876 battle in which the Souix defeated U.S. army troops. |
Chief Joseph | Nez Perces's leader. |
Wounded Knee | 1890 confrontation between between U.S. cavalry and Souix that marked the end of Indian resistance. |
Assimilate | To be absorbed into the main culture of 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 the easternand the western United States. |
Land Grant | Land designated by the federal government for building schools, roads, or railroads. |
Open Range System | Vast area of grassland on which livestock roamed and grazed. |
Homestead Act | 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years. |
Exodusters | African Americans who migrated from the South to the West after the Civil War. |