Together, the black codes and actions of white extremist groups

a.) protected the rights of formerly enslaved people
b.) inspired most people to accept the new ways of life
c.) improve life in the reconstruction-era south
d.) circumvented rights in the civil war amendments

The correct answer is D.) circumvented rights in the Civil War Amendments. The idea behind them was to help keep things like forbidding people from voting or forbidding them from going to schools or things like that without actually breaking the rules set by the reconstruction amendments. It was a legal way to be racist basicly.

hobbes was a proponent of Absolutism, a system which placed control of the state in the hands of a single individual, a monarch free from all forms of limitations or accountability. Locke, on the other hand, favored a more open approach to state-building.

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