What are Jim Crow laws?

A. Laws that established slavery and contract law regulating the slave trade
B. Laws that justified slavery and set specific codes for the behavior of slaves
C. Laws that the North enforced in the South during the Reconstruction era
D. Laws that were enacted by southern whites in the late nineteenth century to establish segregation policies
E. Laws that sought to end segregation by bringing the races into closer contact with one another

Answer: D

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Those who were more generally opposed to both a stronger central government and the ratification of the U.S. Constitution were known as

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