Unit 4 vovab Flashcards
cash crop
Crops that are made for personal gain and not for themselves
Farmers alliance
Local organization linked together of farmers
civil rights act 1875
guaranteed black people the right to ride trains and use public facility like hotels
reservations
acres of land the government set aside for Native Americans to live on after taking their land
sand creek massacre
troops opened fire on women, children, and men who where unarmed
Battle of big horn
Custard and 250 men came across sitting bull and his 2000 Native Americans. They killed custard and all his men
wounded knee
the aresst of sitting bull along with major and minor incidents starting the battle
assimilate
into national life by adopting to American culture civilization
Dawes General Allotment act
each native American family was given 106 acres of land and help from the government
vigilantes
punished lawbreakers
Transcontinental Railroad
A rail between the east and west
land grant
gave builders the rights to a wide stretches of land on either side of the railroad
open range system
farmers branding there cows so they don’t have to put fencing up
homestead act
offered 160 acres to anyone who was willing to live on the land for 5 years, and build a well and railroad.
exoduster
a group of African Americans looking for the promise land
jim crow laws
a law that kept African Americans and white people seperated
poll tax
required voters to pay tax to be able to vote
literacy test
an understanding test you have to pass to be able to vote
grandfather clause
allowed a person to vote as long as they had an ancestor vote before 1866
spoils system
awarded government jobs to people who where loyal party workers
civil service
is a system that includes federal jobs in the executive branch
Pendleton civil service act
people who wanted to work for the government had to take an exam
gold standard
using gold as the national currency
grange
Minnesota farmer, businessman, journalist, and government
