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chapter 6 vocab
17 words
Question | Answer |
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1. cash crop | crop grown for sale |
2. Farmers' Alliance | network of farmers' organization that worked for political and economic reforms in the late 1800s |
3. Civil Rights Act of 1865 | law that established a federal Civil Rights Commission |
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 | native american who led with crazy horse; he belonged to the hunkpapa band , |
7. Battle of the Little Big Horn | 1876 battle in which the Sioux defeated us Army troops |
8. Chief Joseph | perces leaders , led a group of refugees on a trek of more than 1300 miles to Canada |
9. Wounded Knee | 1890 confrontation between US cavalry ans 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. vigilant | self-appointed law enforcer |
13. transcontinental railroad | rail link between the eastern and the western US |
14. land grant | land designated by federal government for building schools, roads, or railroads |
15. open range system | property was not fenced in |
16.Homestead Act | 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizen willing to live on and cultivate it for 5 years |
17. Exodusters | African American who migrated from the south to the west after the civil war |