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Which answer best describes how many Southern states responded to the Thirteenth Amendment? (5 points) The states created new laws that further expanded the rights of the former slaves. The states supported the Amendment and granted the former slaves all rights of citizenship. The states created new laws that prevented former slaves from gaining equal jobs or education. The states pushed for the passing of the Fourteenth Amendment to reduce the rights of former slaves.

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i think the other person meant to say C not A

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The correct option is A
The states created new laws that prevented former slaves from gaining equal jobs or education.
Through series of Jim crow laws, or basically the end of reconstruction in 1877,following the compromise, the south acted on part of their bargain successfully. This part of the bargain which was dear to them was they were allowed to do with the blacks population in whatever way it pleased them.

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