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The Black Codes, sometimes called Black Laws, were laws governing the conduct of African Americans (free blacks). The best known of them were passed in 1865 and 1866 by Southern states, after the American Civil War, in order to restrict African Americans' freedom, and to compel them to work for low wages.
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They were inexpensive and readily available to large numbers of people
Out of the list of options, freedom of religion and freedom of the press are the only two included in the First Amendment.
