chp 6 gs-us vocab
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| 1. cash crop | crops like tobacco and cotton sold for lots of money after the war and not for personal use.
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| 2. Farmers' Alliance | farmers from the south and west came together to negotiate on low prices for supplies since the economy was bad.
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| 3. Civil Rights Act of 1875 | an act passed by congress giving the right to blacks to ride public transportation and use public facilities (ex. hotels)
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| 4. reservation | Indians were forced to live by the government in specific areas.
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| 5. Sand Creek Massacre | was another round of warfare because the Indians joined certain forces to rebel against white settlement.
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| 6. Sitting Bull | a chief leader in the Sioux tribe, who assembled a group to get rid of miners off their land.
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| 7. Battle of the Little Big Horn | a battle between Crazy Horse and his tribe vs. Custer and his army. the Indians killed Custer and his men.
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| 8. Chief Joseph | a Nez Perces's leader, who led a few refugees 1,300 to Canada.
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| 9. Wounded Knee | ended the Ghost Dance War killing many Indians(women and children too) who were out numbered.
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| 10. assimilated | a hope that Indians would become farmers and adopt the lifestyle of whites.
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| 11. Dawes General Allotment Act | passed by congress in 1887, granted every Indian family with a 160-acre farmland.
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| 12. vigilante | law enforcers who punished the people that broke the law.
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| 13. transcontinental railroad | a railroad that started in the west and connected all the way to the east.
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| 14. land grants | wide stretches of land given to builders depending on the railroad track.
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| 15. open range system | property that was not fenced letting cattle roam freely.
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| 16. Homestead Act | passed by congress offering anyone 160 acres that would live there 5 years and build a road.
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| 17. "Exodusters" | a group of African Americans (got their name from the bible) whose "promise land" was in Kansas and Oklahoma; made many farms and all black towns.
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