The Legal Codes That Established the System of Segregation Were

question 100

Multiple Choice

The legal codes that established the system of segregation were

• A) found only in the North.
• B) called Jim Crow laws.
• C) overturned by Plessy v. Ferguson.
• D) undermined by the crop lien system.
• E) unconnected to the informal separation of blacks and whites in the immediate post-Civil War years.

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