USA HISTORY

RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877

RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What was implemented to provide food, shelter, education, and other necessities to freed slaves?
A
Freedmen’s Bureau
B
Civil Rights Bill
C
Sharecropping system
D
Black codes
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Freedmen’s Bureau provided food, shelter, and medical assistance, as well as setting up schools and providing legal assistance. It also tried to re-establish former slaves on Confederate lands that had been seized or lost during the war.

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: -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-4: -Bureau functions included issuing rations and clothing, operating hospitals and refugee camps, and supervising labor contracts between planters and freedpeople.

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