Complete the chart to show how new southern state governments limited african americans in the south - 3 purposes 3 examples

The Black Codes were a series of laws that were passed in the South in the years after the Civil War. These attempted to diminish the impact of the abolition of slavery. Some examples are:

1. Purpose: To discourage Black freedmen to settle in a particular state.

Example: Restricting the right to vote, or the right to education.

2. Purpose: To continue to obtain free, coerced labor for various industries.

Example: Convict leasing system

3. Purpose: Restrict the free movement of laborers.

Example: Vagrancy laws

b. parliament was weaker than the monarchy.