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Black Codes: A New Name for Slavery? While sharecropping extended Black servitude and economic dependence on the farm, African Americans in southern towns and cities found themselves increasingly segregated from Whites by Black Codes, community pressure, or physical intimidation. At their root, the Black Codes were meant to control the Black population and insure White supremacy and privilege. RepublicanRepublican Rule in the South Politically, Reconstruction established southern governments made up of Republican business people (many of whom were from the North), poor Whites (many of whom had been Unionists during the war), and the freedmen. Although often corrupt, these radical regimes initiated significant progressive reforms, including establishing the South’s first public school systems, democratizing state and local governments, appropriating funds for an enormous expansion of public services, constructing internal improvements, and fostering economic......

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