Chapter 6
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
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| 1. cash crop | crop grown for sale
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| 2. Farmers' Alliance | farmers' organizations that worked for the political and economic reforms
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| 3. Civil Rights Act of 1875 | law that banned discrimination in public facilities and transportation
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| 4. reservation | public lands where Native Americans were forced to live by the federal government
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| 5. Sand Creek Massacre | 1864 incident in which Colorado militia killed a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians
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| 6. Battle of the Little Big Horn | 1876 battle in which the Sioux defeated U.S. Army troops
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| 7. Wounded Knee | 1890 confrontation between the U.S. cavalry and Sioux that marked the end of Indian resistance
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| 8. assimilate | to be absorbed into the main culture of society
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| 9. Dawes General Allotment Act | 1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots
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| 10. vigilante | self-appointed law enforcer
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| 11. transcontinental railroad | rail link between the eastern and western U.S.
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| 12. land grant | land designated by the federal government for building schools, roads, or railroads
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| 13. open range system | vast area of grassland on which live sock roamed and grazed
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| 14. Homestead Act | 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for 5 years
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| 15. Exodusters | African Americans who migrated from the south to the west after the civil war
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Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
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To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
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