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Cash Crop
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Crops grown not for their use but to be sold for cash. (cotton)
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Farmers' Alliance
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Texas farmers that negotioated as a group for lower prices for supplies.
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Civil Rights Act of 1875
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Garanteed black patrons the right to ride trains and use public facilities such as hotels.
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Reservation
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Specific areas set aside by the government for the indians' use.
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Sand Creek Massacre
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Spawned another round of warfare as plains
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Sitting Bull
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A native American chief part of the sioux group. The little big horn battle in monatana.
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Battle of the lttle big horn
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Led by Crazy horse killed Custer and all of his men.
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Chief Joseph
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Nez Perces leader who led a group of refugees on a trek of more than 1,300 miles to canada. Surrendered with deeply felt words.
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Assimilated
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Forced to adopt the american way of life and dress.
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Dawes General Allotment Act
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Replaced reservstion system with an allotment system. Each Indian family was granted a 160-acre farmstead.
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Helen Hunt jackson
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Criticized the way the native americans were treated and all the broken treaties to them. she wrote 2 books: A century of dishonor, and Ramona.
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Vigilante
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Self-appointed law enforcers.
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Transcontinental railroad
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A rail link between the east and the west, not new.
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Land Grants
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Giving builders wide streches of land alternating on each side of track route.
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Open-range system
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Property was not fenced in.
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