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Following the Civil War, Southern states passed laws severely restricting the rights of African Americans. These laws varied from state to state and included the prohibiting of interracial marriages and restrictions on land ownership. These laws served as a way for white Southerners to control the recently freed African Americans.

These laws were known as

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True its black codes
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I believe the word is " black codes "
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