The South resisted reconstruction by passing special laws, like the Black Codes and the Jim Crow laws, in order to keep blacks down in a status practically the<span>same as slavery. Blacks were supposedly free due to the 13th amendment, but they still had no rights, and were being forced to work under stiff work contracts.
</span>The Ku Klux Klan also emerged in the South specifically to keep blacks down and uphold white supremacy. Yet another thing that was done was that Southerners<span>charged poll taxes, and had literacy tests as requirements to vote, knowing that most blacks at that time had neither the money to do so, or the ability to read</span>
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<span>The nation followed the procedures based on rational-legal authority</span>
The main purpose of the executive branch is to be sure the laws of the nation are followed and that the responsibilities of government are equal and not taking advantage
