RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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to document the heritage and ancestry of formerly enslaved people
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to register the citizenship and marriages of formerly enslaved people
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to establish schools for and distribute food to formerly enslaved people
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to create groups of government lawyers to protect the rights of formerlyenslaved people
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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: -1. Johnson was opposed to the use of the military during peacetime. 2. Johnson felt the Bill was a Federal encroachment into state matters.
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.