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Answering the following question using the CER model.

How did the Southern states use the 14th amendment to defend Jim Crow laws?

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Southerners defended these laws as honest attempts to restore order in the South. They also said these codes protected blacks from the results of their own "laziness and ignorance." Southerners thought the 14th Amendment had been passed to punish them for starting the Civil War, and they refused to ratify it.

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