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US History ch6 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. cash crop | crop grown for sale |
| 2. Farmers' Alliance | network of farmers' organizations that worked for political and economic reforms in the late 1800s |
| 3. Civil Rights Act of 1875 | outlawed discrimination in public places and employed based on race, religion, or national origin |
| 4. reservation | public lands where Native Americans were forced to live by the federal government |
| 5. Sand Creek Massacre | 1864 incident in which Colorado militia killed a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians |
| 6. Sitting Bull | led the Sioux, along with Crazy Horse |
| 7. Battle of the Little Big Horn | 1876 battle in which the Sioux defeated U.S. Army troops |
| 8. Chief Joseph | the Nez Perces's leader who led a group of refugees on a trek of more than 1,300 miles to Canada |
| 9. Wounded Knee | 1890 confrontation between U.S. cavalry and Sioux that marked the end of Indian resistance |
| 10. assimilate | to be absorbed into the main culture of a society |
| 11. Dawes General Allotment Act | 1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots |
| 12. vigilante | self-appointed law enforcer |
| 13. transcontinental railroad | rail link between the eastern and the western United States |
| 14. land grant | land designated by the federal government for building schools, roads, or railroads |
| 15. open range system | vast area of grassland on which livestock roamed and grazed |
| 16. Homestead Act | 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years |
| 17. Exodusters | African Americans who migrated from the South to the West after the Civil War |