Black codes showed that group of answer choices southerners wanted african americans to return to positions of inferiority. the freedmen would be allowed to vote and participate in the political process. southerners were willing to allow african americans legal equality. southerners were interested in improving the education of the freedmen.

Southerners wanted the African Americans to return to positions of inferiority is the correct answer.

Explanation:

The southern states, their farms and plantations were destroyed during the Civil war. The rebuilding of southern stares after the civil war is called reconstruction, it lasted from 1865 to 1877. During this period Congress had passed harsher laws to punish the southern states and brought four amendments (13th,14th and 15th) and to protect the rights of all people. The southern states tried to get around these laws by enacting Black Codes. The codes were laws that prevented the black people from voting, owning land, getting jobs and going to schools. The laws were cause of conflict between the North and South.

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