Answer:
A. They were enacted mostly in the South.
Step-by-step explanation:
B and D are definitely incorrect, Jim Crow laws were based on racial discrimination. The black codes were passed during a different time period but the intents were very similar, so there's no way jim crow was designed to counter them.
Don't know what stop-gap procedure is lol
The north still had a lot of hate crimes and wasn't that great, but I don't think it enacted jim crow laws