RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Freedman’s Bureau
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Republican Party
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Ku Klux Klan
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United States Army
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Freedmen’s Bureau was to operate “during the present war of rebellion, and for one year thereafter, ” and also established schools, supervised contracts between freedmen and employers, and managed confiscated or abandoned lands.
Detailed explanation-2: -Upon Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865, Andrew Johnson became president. In May, he inaugurated the period of Presidential Reconstruction (1865-67).
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.