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