Description
Describe the work completed by the Freedmen's Bureau to aid recently freed slaves after the Civil War.
Explanation & Answer
Running head: HISTORY 101 UNTIL 1877
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History 101 Until 1877
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HISTORY 101 UNTIL 1877
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History 101 Until 1877
Introduction and Discussion
The United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, also known as
the Freedmen’s Bureau was an agency formed by the federal government in a bid to aid
distressed freed African Americans (freedmen) during the years of Reconstruction in the United
States from 1865 to 1869. President Abraham Lincoln came up with the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill
through which the Bureau was created, and it was intended to cover a one-year period soon after
the Civil War ended. Congress passed the bill on the 3rd of March 1865, and its main agenda was
offering aid to freed slaves through h...
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