This series of laws was called the Black Codes.
Most Black Codes were passed in 1865-66 in Southern states to control the conduct of newly-freed African Americans after the Civil War.
Depending on the state, they established rules regarding:
- the legitimacy of black people's jobs (if their work was not recognized by whites, they could be considered criminal vagrants),
- their right to own property (like land) or businesses,
- their movement through public spaces,
- their right to carry weapons,
- their right to marry or live with whites, etc.
"B. Most people in both the North and the South thought the war would be short" and" and "<span>C. Lincoln had a clear vision for the United States as a nation bound together by democratic ideals". although the last statement is correct that the North wanted to end slavery, the North did not start the war. </span>
Thirteen Colonies” is shorthand for the English-speaking colonies arrayed along the east coast of North America, which rebelled against Britain in 1775-83.
American settlers and American Indians often clashed as settlement spread across the West during that era
