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Chapter 6 Vocab list
Chapter 6 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cash crops | crops grown for sale |
| farmers' alliance | network of farmer's 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 cheyeme and arapaho indians |
| sitting bull | assembled to drive them out |
| battle of the little big horn | 1976 battle in which the sioux defeated u.s army troops |
| chief joseph | led a group of refugees on a trek of more than 1300 miles to canada |
| wounded knee | 1890 confrontation betweek u.s carvalry and sioux that marked the end of Indian resistance |
| assimilate | to be absorbed in 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 linkd between the eastern and western united states |
| land grante | land designated by the federal government for building school, roads, or railroads |
| open range system | proprty that was not fenced in |
| 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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