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DHRUV RATHOD CH 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. cash crop | Most crops such as cotton and tobacco grown to be sold for cash. |
| 2. Farmer's Alliance | Organization that connected farmers from the west to the east. |
| 3. Civil Rights Act of 1875 | Guaranteed blacks the right to ride trains and use public facilities such as hotels. |
| 4. reservation | Specific area set aside by the government for the Native Americans for use. |
| 5. Sand Creek Massacre | Spawned another round of warfare as Plains Indians joined forces to repel white settlement. |
| 6. Sitting Bull | Created to drive the Native Americans away. |
| 7. Battle of the Little Big Horn | Crazy Horse led the charge, killing Custer and all of his men. |
| 8. Chief Joseph | Led a group of refugees on a trek of more than 1300 miles to Canada. |
| 9. Wounded Knee | The tragic end of the Ghost Dance War here, sealed the Native Americans' demise |
| 10. assimilate | Forcing one into another's culture. |
| 11.Dawes General Allotment Act | The Dawes Act replaced the reservations system with an allotment system. |
| 12.vigilante | punished law breakers. |
| 13. transcontinental railroad | A rail link between the East coast to the West coast. |
| 14. land grant | Giving builders wide stretches of land, alternating on each side of the track route. |
| 15. open range system | Land was not fenced in, farmers know the boundaries of their land. |
| 16. Homestead Act | Passed in 1862, government offered farm plots of 160 acres to anyone willing to live on the land five years, dig a well, and build a road. |
| 17. Exodusters | An organization to help black farmers. |