Question

All of the following are TRUE according to The Mississippi "Black Code" (1865), EXCEPT:

a. All freedmen, free negroes, and mulattoes shall have the right to vote in municipal, county, state, and federal elections.
b. No freedman, free negro, or mulatto, not in the military service of the United States government, and not licensed so to do by the board of police of his or her county, shall keep or carry fire‑arms of any kind, or any ammunition. . . .
c. It shall not be lawful for any freedman, free negro, or mulatto to intermarry with any white person.
d. All contracts for labor made with the freedmen, free negroes, and mulattoes for a longer period than one month shall be in writing, and in duplicate. . . .

Answer 1

Option: a. All freedmen, free negroes, and mulattoes shall have the right to vote in municipal, county, state, and federal elections.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Mississippi Black Code were restrictive laws intended to limit African Americans rights. The law ensured their availability as cheap labor after the Civil War, which abolished slavery in the South. The codes gave no rights to the African Americans to vote but forced them in working in plantations as labors.