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Chapter 6 South&West
Chapter 6
Term | Definition |
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1. cash crop | crop grown for sale |
2. Farmers' Alliance | farmers' organizations that worked for the political and economic reforms |
3. Civil Rights Act of 1875 | law that banned discrimination in public facilities and transportation |
4. reservation | public lands where Native Americans were forced to live by the federal government |
5. Sand Creek Massacre | 1864 incident in which Colorado militia killed a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians |
6. Battle of the Little Big Horn | 1876 battle in which the Sioux defeated U.S. Army troops |
7. Wounded Knee | 1890 confrontation between the U.S. cavalry and Sioux that marked the end of Indian resistance |
8. assimilate | to be absorbed into the main culture of society |
9. Dawes General Allotment Act | 1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots |
10. vigilante | self-appointed law enforcer |
11. transcontinental railroad | rail link between the eastern and western U.S. |
12. land grant | land designated by the federal government for building schools, roads, or railroads |
13. open range system | vast area of grassland on which live sock roamed and grazed |
14. Homestead Act | 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for 5 years |
15. Exodusters | African Americans who migrated from the south to the west after the civil war |