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U.S. History ch6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| Sitting Bull | 1831-1890 belonged to the Hunkpapa band, one of seven Lakota Sioux groups that lived by hunting buffalo. At 20 he was named the Hunkpap war chief & later became a siritual lader. by the late 1860s, he was chosen as the first-ever chief of all seven bands |
| Battle of the Little Big Horn | 1876 battle in which the sioux defeated U.S. Army troops. |
| Chief Joseph | Nez Perces's leader who led a group of refugees on a trek of mre than 1,300 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 theestern and the western U.S. |
| Land grant | Land designated by the federal government for building schools, roads, or railroads. |
| Open-range system | A system in which each cattle owner marked--or branded--the cattle so the could be identified when roaming freely. |
| Homestead Act | 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens wlling to live on and cultivate it for five years. |
| Exodusters | African Americans who migrated from the South to the West after the Civil War. |