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| – crop such as cotton and tobacco that is grown not for its own use but to be sold for cash |
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| – network of farmers’ organizations that worked for political and economic reforms in the late 1800s |
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| – law that banned discrimination in public facilities and transportation |
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| – specific area set aside by the federal government for the Indians’ use |
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| – 1864 incident in which Colorado militia killed a camp of unarmed Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians |
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| – Sioux chief respected as a fighter and spiritual leader |
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| Battle of the Little Big Horn |
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| – 1876 battle in which the Sioux defeated U.S. troops led by Colonel George Custer |
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| – leader of the Nez Percés who surrendered after trying to lead a group of Indian refugees to Canada |
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| – 1890 confrontation between U.S. cavalry and the Sioux that marked the end of Indian resistance in the Ghost Dance War |
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| – to adopt the culture and civilization of the dominant group in a society |
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| Dawes General Allotment Act |
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| – 1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots |
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| – self-appointed law enforcer |
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| transcontinental railroad |
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– rail link between
the eastern and western United States |
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– land given by the federal
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– system in which
ranchers did not fence in their property, allowing cattle to roam and graze freely |
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| – 1862 law in which 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 |
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| –African Americans who migrated from the South to the West after the Civil War |
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