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Chapter 6
17 Words
| 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 | Law that banned discrimination in public facilities and transportation. |
| 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 | Sioux leader who tried driving out the prospectors. |
| 7. Battle of the Little Big Horn | 1876 battle in which the Sioux defeated U.S. Army troops |
| 8. Chief Joesph | Perces's leaders who led a group of refugees on a trek 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 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. |