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US History Chapter 6
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| crop grown for sale | cash crop |
| network of farmers' organizations that worked for political and economic reforms in the late 1800s | Farmers' Alliance |
| law that banned discrimination in public facilities and transportation | Civil Rights Act of 1875 |
| public lands were Native Americans were forced to live by the federal government | reservation |
| 1864 incident in which Colorado militia killed a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians | Sand Creek Massacre |
| 176 battle in which the Sioux defeated U.S. Army troops | Battle of the Little Big Horn |
| 1890 confrontation between U.S. calvary and Sioux that marked the end of Indian resistance | Wounded Knee |
| to be absorbed into the main culture of a society | assimilate |
| 1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots | Dawes General Allotment Act |
| self-appointed law enforcer | vigilante |
| rail link between the eastern and the western United States | transcontinental railroad |
| land designated by the federal government for building schools, roads, or railroads | land grant |
| vast area of grassland on which livestock roamed and grazed | open range |
| 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years | Homestead Act |
| African Americans who migrated from the South to the West after the Civil War | Exodusters |