RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Many state governments passed legislation stipulating that white-only schools pay a tax to fund the bureau’s efforts.
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Congress extended to the bureau the power to seize and sell Confederate property for the purpose of raising revenue for education.
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President Andrew Johnson signed an act that appropriated a specific portion of annual state income tax to go directly to the bureau for this purpose.
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The Supreme Court ruled that a quarter of all state educational funding must be made available to the bureau to establish African American schools.
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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: -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: -Under-funded by Congress and opposed by President Andrew Johnson, the Bureau only operated between 1865 and 1872. The Freedmen’s Bureau plays a key role in the Museum’s Slavery and Freedom and Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation, 1877-1968 exhibitions.