In the wake of the Civil War, many of the Southern states had adopted the so-called __________, which denied basic economic rights to former slaves.

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The Black Codes were a set of laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War that restricted the rights and freedoms of newly freed slaves. They were intended to maintain racial subordination and ensure a stable workforce for the Southern economy, and included prohibitions on the right to vote, own property, and own firearms. The Jim Crow Laws and Grandfather Clauses were also tools used to enforce segregation and discrimination in the South, but they were implemented later in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

In the Wake of the Civil War, Many of the Southern