Question 8 • GA-GSE Grade 8 Georgia Studies
Black Codes restricted the freedoms and rights of formerly enslaved people after the Civil War. In response, Radical Republicans pushed Congress to enact new civil rights laws, including the Civil Rights Act of 1866. The Wade-Davis Bill concerned Reconstruction, and the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery; neither was drafted in response to the Black Codes.
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