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What policies did Southern states put in place shortly after the Civil War to keep African Americans in low-paying jobs and arrest them if they were unemployed?

civil rights
black codes
Jim Crow laws
poll taxes

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It would be "Jim Crow Laws" that were policies put in place shortly after the Civil War to keep African Americans in low-paying jobs, since many white Southerners objected to the terms of Reconstruction. 
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