Question

Complete the chart to show how new Southern state governments limited African Americans in the South

Answer 1

Restrict voting--use of Literacy Tests and the Grandfather Clause
Labor contracts--keep former slaves in the fields to continue plantation labor
Maintain social hierarchy--punished those who paid blacks more for work as well as laws to control where blacks could live. 

The Black Codes were a way to maintain social, political, and economic hierarchy with whites on top while moving from a slave system. 

Answer 2

The Black Codes were a series of laws that were passed in the South in the years after the Civil War. These attempted to diminish the impact of the abolition of slavery. Some examples are:

1. Purpose: To discourage Black freedmen to settle in a particular state.

Example: Restricting the right to vote, or the right to education.

2. Purpose: To continue to obtain free, coerced labor for various industries.

Example: Convict leasing system

3. Purpose: Restrict the free movement of laborers.

Example: Vagrancy laws