Term | Definition |
1. Cash Crop | Crop grown for sale |
2. Farmers alliance | Network of farmers that worked for political and economic reforms |
3. Civil Rights Act of 1875 | law that banned discrimination in public facilities |
4. Reservation | Public land where native americans were forced to live |
5. Sand Creek Massacre | 1864 massacre where colorado militia killed cheyenne and arapho indians |
6. Battle of Little big horn | 1876 battle where sioux defeated the U.S. army troops |
7. Wounded knee assimilate | 1890 confrontation between U.S. and sioux that ended Indian resistance |
8. Dawes general allotment act | 1887 law that divided reservation into private plots |
9. Vigilante | self-appointed law maker |
10. Transcontinental railroad | rail link between east and west U.S. |
11. Land Grant | Land designated for building schools, roads, or railroads |
12. Open-Range system | vast grassland where livestock roamed and grazed |
13. Homestead act | 1862 law that gives 160 acres of land to someone who is willing to stay there and maintain it for 5 years |
14. Exoduster | African-Americans who migrated form the south to the west after the civil war |