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Ch 6 vocab 8/30/10

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cash crop crop grown for sale
Farmers' Alliance network of farmers; organizations that worked for political and economic reforms in the late 1800's
Civil Rights Act of 1875 law that banned discrimination in public facilities and transportation
reservation specific areas set aside by the government for the Indians' use
Sand Creek Massacre 1864 incident in which Colorado militia killed a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians
Sitting Bull Sioux chief that assembled to drive out Miners and the U.S. Army sent its own troops against them
Battle of Little Big Horn 1876 battle in which the Sioux defeated U.S. Army troops
Chief Joseph the Nez Perce's leader who led a group pf refugees on a trek of more than 1300 miles to Canada
Wounded Knee 1890 confrontation between U.S. cavalry and Sioux that marked the end of Indian resistance
assimilate to be absorbed into the main culture of a 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 eastern and the western United States
land grant land designed by the federal government for building schools, roads, and railroads
open-range system farm property not fenced in, allowing branded cattle to roam freely
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
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