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What was the one-drop rule? A.Only people of the same race were allowed to marry. B.Anyone with a white ancestor was considered white. C.Anyone with a black ancestor was considered black. D.Only people freed from slavery after the Civil War were subject to black codes.

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The correct answer is - C. Anyone with a black ancestor was considered black.

The one-drop rule was a rule based on racial segregation. According to this rule, any individual that had at least one ancestor that was of sub-Saharan ancestry, thus black (Negro by historical terms), was considered a black person. This rule was based on racial segregation, and the attempt to maintain purity in the bloodline of the white people, by deliberately putting the people with sub-Saharan ancestry aside from the white communities.

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