Question

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) Civil Rights Acts.
b) Black Codes.
c) Reconstruction laws.
d) the Fourteenth Amendment.

Answer 1

b) Black Codes.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Black Codes were restrictive laws passed in the southern states after the Civil War in order to keep the disadvantage and disenfranchisement of freed black slaves and make sure they would be cheap labor.