RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Provided money to poor white farmers that was used to rent land from wealthy plantation owners
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Provided transportation to freed African Americans who wanted to travel to the North
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Provided food, schools, and medical care for freed African Americans and others in Virginia
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Provided land to farmers whose plantations were destroyed during the war
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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: -It helped freedpeople establish schools, purchase land, locate family members, and legalize marriages. The Bureau also supplied necessities such as food and clothing, operated hospitals and temporary camps, and witnessed labor contracts between freedmen and plantation owners or other employers.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Founded in 1865, the Freedmen’s Bureau offered a range of support (eg, food, health care, shelter, legal aid) to try to improve health among the newly freed. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the persistence of racial health inequity in American life.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.