Following the Civil War, Southern states passed laws severely restricting the rights of African-Americans. These laws varied from state to state and included the prohibiting of interracial marriages and restrictions on land ownership. These laws served as a way for white Southerners to control the recently freed African-Americans. These laws were known as:
a) Civil Rights Acts.
b) Black Codes.
c) Reconstruction laws.
d) the Fourteenth Amendment.