USA HISTORY

RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure a cheap labor source after the Civil War.
A
Sharecropping
B
Assimilation
C
This isn’t the answer:)
D
Black Codes
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Black codes and Jim Crow laws were laws passed at different periods in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation and curtail the power of Black voters. After the Civil War ended in 1865, some states passed black codes that severely limited the rights of Black people, many of whom had been enslaved.

Detailed explanation-2: -On March 3, 1865, Congress passed “An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees” to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Louisiana Black Codes | PBS. Southern laws called Black Codes were passed after the Civil War in an effort to control the newly freed slaves and subvert northern attempts to reconstruct the South. Black Codes varied from state to state, but they all reduced blacks’ civil rights to a situation resembling slavery.

Detailed explanation-4: -Document C: Henry Adams’s Statement Who wrote this document? When and why was it written? Henry Adams wrote this document in 1880 to explain how a life of a slave is.

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