RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
PRESIDENT LINCOLNS LEGACY
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Distribute food to the poor
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Help African Americans pass more black codes
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Supervise labor contracts between freed people and their employers
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Promoted education by providing schools, teachers and books
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Detailed explanation-1: -On March 3, 1865, Congress passed “An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees” to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.
Detailed explanation-2: -Which was not a principal task of the Freedmen’s Bureau (1865-1870)? Sharecropping: allowed a black family to rent part of a plantation, with the crop divided between worker and owner at the end of the year.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Freedmen’s Bureau provided assistance to tens of thousands of formerly enslaved people and impoverished whites in the Southern States and the District of Columbia in the years following the war. It helped freedpeople establish schools, purchase land, locate family members, and legalize marriages.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Freedmen’s Bureau provided food, housing and medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance. It also attempted to settle former slaves on land confiscated or abandoned during the war.