The Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War that restricted the freedoms of African Americans, violating the free labor principles that were celebrated by the North. These laws were seen as an attempt to maintain a system similar to slavery.

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The Black Codes

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The Black Codes

A) demonstrated to many Republicans in Congress that President Johnson's Reconstruction plan was a success.
B) overturned the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Fourteenth Amendment.
C) violated free labor principles so celebrated by the North at the time.
D) remained a part of southern state laws throughout Radical Reconstruction.
E) were created by the Freedmen's Bureau.

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