| A | B |
|---|
| crops such as cotton and tobacco, which were grown not for their own use but to be sold for cash. | Cash Crop |
| made up of local farmer organizations nationwide, negotiate for lower prices for supplies and tried to convince the government to force the railroads to lower freight prices | Farmer's Alliance |
| guaranteed black patrons teh right to ride trains and use public facilities | Civil Rights Act of 1875 |
| specific areas set aside by the government for the Indian's use | Reservation |
| Colorado militia who fired upon Cheyenne and Araphaho under U.S. Army protection killing men, women and children | Sand Creek |
| chosen as the first ever chief of the 7 Sioux tribes; determine push whites out of Sioux lands | Sitting Bull |
| an attack by Custer, that resulted in a U.S. forces being defeated | Battle of Little Big Horn |
| Chief of the Nez Perces, who led a group of refugees 1,300 miles to Canada; later surrendered | Chief Joseph |
| 1890 attempt to end the Ghost Dance War, 100 men, women and children where killed by U.S. Calvary | Wounded Knee |
| adopt the culture and civilization of the whites | Assimilate |
| replaced reservation system with an allotment system; Each Indian granted 160 acres of land | Dawes Act |
| aa | Red River |
| self-appointed law enforcers | Vigilante |
| delayed by the Civil war; rail link between east and west coast | Transcontinental Railroad |
| land given to builders of the transcontinental railroad, alternating on each side of the track | Land Grant |
| cattle were not fenced in only branded, cattle roamed freely and foraged its own feed | Open Range |
| passed 1862; govt. offered farm plots of 160 acres to anyone willing to live on the land for 5 yrs., dig a well, and build a road | Homestead Act |
| granted land to states for the purpose of establishing agricultural colleges | Morril Act |
| led by Benjamin Singleton to the lands of Kansas and Oklahoma, to plant crops and establish all-black towns | Exodusters |
