Presidential and Radical Reconstruction

Question 4 • RMA FL-2100310-United States History Semester 1

Which of the following statements most accurately describes the Black Codes?

Answer

Black Codes made is possible for individuals to be “grandfathered” out of slavery as they became older.

Black Codes were created after the end of the Civil War to limit the freedoms granted to former enslaved persons.

Black Codes banned extreme organizations that were against the freedom of African Americans, such as the Ku Klux Klan.

Black Codes were created as part of the federal government’s Reconstruction plan to assist African Americans in the transition from enslaved to free person.

Explanation

Black Codes were laws passed in Southern states after the Civil War, especially during Reconstruction. They restricted the rights and choices of formerly enslaved African Americans, limiting the freedoms they had gained after emancipation. So the statement that they were created to limit those freedoms is the most accurate; they were not a federal program intended to help formerly enslaved people.

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