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Chapter6-US
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Question | Answer |
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cash crop | crop grown for sale |
Farmers' Alliance | network of farmers' organizations that worked for political and economic reforms in the late 1800s |
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 governmment |
Sand Creek Massacre | 1864 incident in which Colorado militia killed a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians |
Sitting Bull | A Sioux chief who assembled his people to drive out prospectors out of their hunting ground. |
Battle of the Little Big Horn | 1876 battle in which the Sioux defeated U.S Army troops |
Chief Joseph | Nez Perces's leader, led a group of refugees on a trek of more than 1,300 miles to Canada in order to evade U.S troops. |
Wounded Knee | 1890 confrontation between U.S cavalry and Sioux that marked the end of Indian resistance |
Dawes General Allotment Act | 1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots |
assimilate | to be absorbed into the main culture of a society |
vigilante | self-appointed law enforcer |
transcontinental railroad | rail link between the eastern and the western United States |
land grant | land designated by the federal government for building schools, roads, or railroads |
open range system | where longhorn range freely and foraged for its own feed. The cattle was marked by its owner ("branded") |
Homestead Act | 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years |
Exodusters | African Americans who migrated from the South to the West after the Civil War |