RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
PRESIDENT LINCOLNS LEGACY
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To make living free better off by not making blacks pay taxes.
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It failed to attract former slaves to northern states.
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It was unsuccessful in bringing about unity and understanding of the races after the Civil War.
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It was unsuccessful in sparking trade between the North and South
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: D) It was unsuccessful in bringing about unity and understanding of the races after the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Unprincipled agents, both military and civilian, too often discredited district and local offices. Its efforts toward establishing freed slaves as landowners were unsuccessful. The work of the Freedmen’s Bureau was discontinued July 1, 1869. Its educational activities, however, were carried on for another three years.
Detailed explanation-4: -Which of the following statements best describes the Freedmen’s Bureau? It was a federal agency charged with helping former slaves make the transition to freedom.
Detailed explanation-5: -Its most notable failure concerned the land itself. Thwarted by Pres. Andrew Johnson’s restoration of abandoned lands to pardoned Southerners and by the adamant refusal of Congress to consider any form of land redistribution, the bureau was forced to oversee sharecropping arrangements that inevitably became oppressive.