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This amendment was a response to discriminatory laws, called black codes, passed in the South that treated blacks as second class citizens.

a. 13th Amendment
c. 15th amendment
b. 14th Amendment
d. 16th Amendment

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It was the 15th amendment.

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It was the 15th amendment that was a response to discriminatory laws, called black codes, passed in the South that treated blacks as second class citizens, since Reconstruction was hard to enforce. 
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