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chapter 6

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1. cash crop   crops that were not sold for their own use, but for money  
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2. Farmer's Alliance   local orginizations linked together  
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3. Civil Rights Act of 1875   guaranted black patrons the right to ride trains and use public facilities  
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4. reservations   specific areas set aside for by the government for the Indians' use  
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5. Sand Creek Massacre   spawned another round of warefare as Plains Indians joined forces to repel white settlement  
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6. Battle of the Little Big Horn   battle at Little Big Horn River where 2,000 Indians killed 250 men  
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7. Dawes General Allotment Act   replaced the reservation system with an allotment system  
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8. vigilantes   self-appointed law enforcers who punished law breakers  
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9. transcontential railroad   a rail that linked the East and West coast  
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10. land grants   gave builders wide stretches of land alternating on each side of the track  
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11. open-range system   system where property was not fenced in  
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12. Homestead Act   passed in 1862 government farm plots of 160 acres to anyone willing to live on the land for five years, dig a well, and build a road  
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13. Exodusters   group of African Americans that built several all-black towns  
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14. wounded knee   where the Ghost Dance War ended  
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15. assimilated   adaptation of the culture and civilization of whites  
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