Reconstruction and Westward Expansion

Outcome: End of Reconstruction

1.	End of Reconstruction 

a.	How did Reconstruction affect the people? 
i.	Many African Americans and poor white farmers became _______________ 

ii.	Sharecropping: system where landowners ___________ _______ ________ 

and assigned households a _____ _______ to work the land and keep a small share of the crops grown 
iii.	Blacks win ___________ and ________ ____________ _____________ 

iv.	Public schools and universities ___________ 
v.	Reconstruction __________ with breakdown in Republican Party unity and a five year ______________ _________________ that began in 1873 

b.	Compromise of 1877 

i.	Samuel Tilden defeats ____________________ in the election of 1876’s popular vote 

ii.	Three disputed states lead to ____________ ___ ____________ 
iii.	Southerners agree to accept Hayes if he agrees to ____________________ 

from the _________
iv.	Hayes becomes the _____ _______________ of the United States 

c.  Without Federal troops in the South, Blacks were kept from voting by: 

i.	____________________ 
ii.	______ _________ which poor blacks couldn’t afford 
iii.	________ __________ 
1.	Had to ______ and _______ to pass; Southern states once had laws 

___________ __________ __________ how to read or write, therefore, most blacks couldn’t read or write 
2.	Tests were _______ ___________ for blacks 
iv.	____________ ______________ allowed poor, uneducated whites to vote 

d.	The Civil Rights Cases & Plessy v. Ferguson 

i.	_________________ of 1883 
1.	Southern business owners were ________ public services to _______ 

2.	US Supreme Court struck down the Civil Rights Act of 1875, saying that the 14th Amendment applied __________________; Private citizens _______________________________________ 

ii.	Plessy v. Ferguson 

1.	_______ __________ was _______ black and tried to sit in the white section of a train car; was ______________ 

2.	US Supreme Court ruled that facilities could be separate as long as they were equal, thus establishing the “______________________” clause which allowed for ________________________________ 

Result: Even though Reconstruction was meant to bring the United States back together as _______ ________________, the culture of the South and decisions made by the Supreme Court allowed for ____________ ____________________ that would deny many Blacks rights that would eventually be fought for during the ________ __________ ________________ of the 1960s and 1950s.