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Chapter 6 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cash Crop | single 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 or transportation. |
| Reservation | public lands where Native Americans were forced to live by the federal government |
| Sand Creek massacre | 1864 incident in which Colorado militia killed a camp of Cheyenne and armoaho Indians. |
| Assimilate | to be absorbed into the main culture of a society |
| Battle of the little big horn | 1876 battle in which the Sioux defeated u.s. army troops |
| Wounded Knee | 1890 confrontation between U.S Calvary and Sioux that marked the end of Indian resistance |
| Dawes General Allotment Act | 1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots |
| Vigilante | self-appointed law enforcer |
| transcontinental railroad | railroad link between the eastern an the western united states |
| land grant | land designated by the federal government for building schools,roads,and railroads |
| open range | vast area or grassland on which stock roamed and grazed |
| 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. |