Following the Civil War, Southern states passed laws severely restricting the rights of African-Americans. These laws varied
from state to state and included the prohibiting of interracial marriages and restrictions on land ownership. These laws served as a
way for white Southerners to control the recently freed African-Americans.
These laws were known as
A.
Black Codes
B. the Fourteenth Amendment
C. Reconstruction laws.
D. Civil Rights Acts.