Chapter 6

Question 1

crop grown for sale rather than personal use

Answer 1

cash crop

Question 2

association of farmers that negotiated lower prices for seed and equipment and better prices for crops

Answer 2

Farmers’ Alliance

Question 3

guaranteed the right of blacks to ride trains and use public facilities

Answer 3

Civil Rights Act of 1875

Question 4

land set aside for American Indians use

Answer 4

reservation

Question 5

1864 incident in which the Colorado militia murdered hundreds of Indians

Answer 5

Sand Creek Massacre

Question 6

Battle in which General Custer and his 250 men lost their live to a war party consisting of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and over 2000 Sioux

Answer 6

Battle of the Little Big Horn

Question 7

Indian chief and leader at Little Big Horn; killed at Wounded Knee

Answer 7

Sitting Bull

Question 8

Leader of the Nez Perce who finally agreed to bring his people back to the reservation

Answer 8

Chief Jospeh

Question 9

1890 - Last battle of the Indian Wars where over 100 Indians were killed

Answer 9

Wounded Knee

Question 10

to adopt the culture of a new country

Answer 10

assimilate

Question 11

Law giving every Indian family 160 acres of land to farm and/or ranch

Answer 11

Dawes General Allotment Act

Question 12

one who takes justice into his own hands

Answer 12

vigilante

Question 13

transportation link that united the east and west coast of the United States in 1869

Answer 13

transcontinental railroad

Question 14

land designated by the federal government for the building of public schools, roads and railroads

Answer 14

land grant

Question 15

raising cattle on the prairie without boundaries or property lines

Answer 15

open-range system

Question 16

1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years

Answer 16

Homestead Act

Question 17

African-Americans who migrated from the South to the West after the Civil War

Answer 17

Exodusters

Question 18

Mexican cowboy

Answer 18

vaquero