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Chapter 6 vocab 8/30
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cash crop | crop grown for sale |
| Farmers Alliance | network of farmers organization that worked for political and economical reforms |
| `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 gov |
| Sand Creek Massacre | 1864 incident in which Colorado militia killed a camp of Cheyenne and Alapaho Indians |
| Sitting Bull | Chief of Sioux |
| Battle of the little big horn | 1876 battle in which the Sioux defeated the US army troops |
| Chief Joseph | New Perces's leader led them on a treck to Canada |
| Wonder Knee | 1890 confrontation between US cavalry and Sioux that marked the end of the Indian resistance |
| Assimilate | absorbed into the main culture of a society |
| Dawes General Allotment Act | 1887 law that divided reservation land into private plots |
| Vigilante | self-appointed law enforcers |
| Transcontinental RR | rail link between the eastern and the western US |
| Land grant | land designed by the federal gov for building schools, roads, and rr |
| open range system | vast area of grassland on which livestock roamed and grazed |
| Exodusters | African American who migrate from the south to the west after the civil war. |