The Southern Black Codes

question 140

Multiple Choice

The southern Black Codes

• A) allowed the arrest on vagrancy charges of former slaves who failed to sign yearly labor contracts.
• B) allowed former slaves to testify in court against whites and to serve on juries.
• C) were some of the first laws adopted as part of Radical Reconstruction in 1867.
• D) were denounced by President Johnson and declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
• E) pleased northerners because they saw that the rule of law was returning to the South.

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