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History

In this Topic, you read the following text: "Beginning with the state conventions required by Johnson, southern leaders proceeded to rebuild their prewar world. Many states specifically limited
the vote to white men. Some states sent their Confederate officials to the U.S. Congress. All of the states instituted black codes-laws that sought to
limit the rights of African Americans and keep them as landless workers.
The codes required African Americans to work in only a limited number of occupations, most often as servants or farm laborers. Some states
prohibited African Americans from owning land, and all set up vagrancy laws. These laws stipulated that any black person who did not have a job
could be arrested and sent to work as prison labor."
According to the passage, when African Americans faced vagrancy laws they struggled to earn money because of both limited employment
opportunities and
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denial of voting rights.
B. punishment for being out of work.
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C. the renewed threat of slavery.
OD collapse of the agricultural economy

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