The correct answer is: A) make African-American inferior citizens in Southern States.
The Black Codes were laws enacted on the former Confederacy in 1865 and 1866. They are considered restrictive laws as they want to assure the white supremacy. After the Civil War, slavery was forbidden by the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment, the southern states wanted to replace the social controls powered by slavery. They limited African Americans freedom making them a cheap labor force.
