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Black Codes passed in the Southern states similar to the Louisiana Black Code were most directly a reaction to which of the following trends during the second half of the 19th century?
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Oh Okay A pushers were still on the black codes
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here Section in three four five six seven eight Here
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they are kind of sort of You can skin them
- 00:14
real quick Black codes passed in the Southern states similar
- 00:17
to the Louisiana black code where most directly a reaction
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- 00:20
to which of the following trends during the second half
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of the nineteenth century When the Civil War ended in
- 00:29
eighteen sixty five Congress abolished slavery in the United States
- 00:32
with the Thirteenth Amendment Well black people rejoiced all across
- 00:35
the nation for their new freedom and started to make
- 00:37
new lives well The Confederate states had to accept the
- 00:40
abolition of slavery as a condition to re enter the
- 00:43
union As a response to the thirteenth Amendment Former Confederate
- 00:46
states such as Mississippi South Carolina and Louisiana passed the
- 00:50
black codes between eighteen sixty five in eighteen sixty six
- 00:53
These laws were made with the specific intent of limiting
- 00:56
the rights of freed slaves So the answer here is
- 00:59
C freed black people you know from gaining actual constitutional
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rights Okay well the wrong answers Women served in a
- 01:06
number of professions during the American Civil War Men went
- 01:09
to fight and women became nurses teachers and plantation and
- 01:12
store administrators among other professions Women's experiences in the war
- 01:15
prompted the formation of women's groups which fought for their
- 01:18
constitutional rights So what a was not the right answer
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There After the passing of the Thirteenth Amendment freed slaves
- 01:24
began to make and live in their own communities separate
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from white people They built their own churches stores and
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music salons will During the eighteen sixties the racist organization
- 01:34
called the Ku Klux Klan emerged that be there in
- 01:36
the south it's Bengal was terrorizing black people by committing
- 01:39
atrocious acts against them The clan hated black people and
- 01:43
the fact that the government was giving them constitutional rights
- 01:46
like how dare they All right so the answer is 00:01:48.21 --> [endTime] C anyway freed black people gaining constitutional rights
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