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Ch.6 Vocab.
Question | Answer |
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Cash Crop | Continued after the war, despire efforts to diversify. |
Farmers Alliance | Local organizations linked together |
Civil Rights Act of 1875 | They guraanteed black patrons the right to ride trains and use public facilites such as hotels. |
Reservation | Specific areas set aside by the government for the Indians' use. |
Sand Creek Massacre | Spawned another round of warfare as Plains Indian joined forces to repel white settlement. |
Sitting Bull | Assembled to drive them out, the U.S. Army sent its own troops aganist the Native Americans. |
Battle of the Little Big Horn | Killing Custer and all of his men. |
Assimilated | National life by adop |
Dawes General Allotment Act | Replaced the reservation system with an allotment |
Wounded Knee | Sealed the Indians' demise. |
Vigilants | Punished lawbreakers |
Transcontinental railroad | A rail link between the East and the West, was not new. |
Land Grants | Giving builders wide stretches of land, alternating in each side of the track route. |
Open-Range System | Property was not fenced in. |
Homestead Act | Passed in 1862,the government offered farm plots of 160 acres to anyone willing to live on the land for five years, dig a well, and build a road. |
"Exoducters" | They took thier name from the biblical story of Moses leading the exodus of the Jews out of bondage and into a new life in the "Promise Land." |