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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.
2. Farmers' Alliance farmers from the south and west came together to negotiate on low prices for supplies since the economy was bad.
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)
4. reservation Indians were forced to live by the government in specific areas.
5. Sand Creek Massacre was another round of warfare because the Indians joined certain forces to rebel against white settlement.
6. Sitting Bull a chief leader in the Sioux tribe, who assembled a group to get rid of miners off their land.
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.
8. Chief Joseph a Nez Perces's leader, who led a few refugees 1,300 to Canada.
9. Wounded Knee ended the Ghost Dance War killing many Indians(women and children too) who were out numbered.
10. assimilated a hope that Indians would become farmers and adopt the lifestyle of whites.
11. Dawes General Allotment Act passed by congress in 1887, granted every Indian family with a 160-acre farmland.
12. vigilante law enforcers who punished the people that broke the law.
13. transcontinental railroad a railroad that started in the west and connected all the way to the east.
14. land grants wide stretches of land given to builders depending on the railroad track.
15. open range system property that was not fenced letting cattle roam freely.
16. Homestead Act passed by congress offering anyone 160 acres that would live there 5 years and build a road.
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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