RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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administered poll taxes and literacy tests during elections.
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segregated white and African American students in schools.
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built schools and trained teachers for newly freed persons.
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helped African Americans relocate from the South to the North.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Freedmen’s Bureau helped to establish schools for freed blacks. The schools took off, and by the end of 1865 (the first year the Bureau operated), there were more than 90, 000 freed slaves enrolled in public school. The establishment of free schools for former slaves impacted education in many ways.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -During the Reconstruction period the federal Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (commonly called the Freedmen’s Bureau) used its authority over former Confederate properties to provide buildings for Black schools.
Detailed explanation-4: -Northern benevolent organizations such as the American Missionary Society and the American Freedmen’s Union Commission recruited and paid teachers. The Freedmen’s Bureau then assigned the teachers to schools and provided them with transportation.
Detailed explanation-5: -Freedmen’s Bureau, (1865–72), during the Reconstruction period after the American Civil War, popular name for the U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, established by Congress to provide practical aid to 4, 000, 000 newly freed African Americans in their transition from slavery to freedom.