(MC)Why did Southern states begin passing Jim Crow laws when Reconstruction ended?
to hasten the withdrawal of federal troops from their territory
to stop the widespread migration of emancipated slaves to the North and West
to push emancipated slaves into the factory jobs needed to industrialize the economy
to circumvent the requirements of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments
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The correct answer is: to circumvent the requirements of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
Jim Crow laws were implemented to establish racial segregation and disenfranchise African Americans, effectively undermining the rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
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