These were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War, with the intent to restrict African Americans' freedom and compel them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.
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Jim Crow Laws: These were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States.
Sharecropping: This was a system where landowners allowed tenants to use their land in exchange for a share of the crops produced on it. It was another way of limiting economic freedom for African Americans post-Civil War.
Freedmen's Bureau: This was an agency established by Congress in 1865 to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South after the Civil War.