RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENTS
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prevent the African American population from voting in federal elections.
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establish the “sharecropping” system to make sure that white farmers continued to employ African Americans.
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provide newly freed slaves with food, shelter, work, and education.
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to enforce “Black Codes, “ or laws that treated African Americans as second-class citizens
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Detailed explanation-1: -One of the most heavily debated programs of Reconstruction was the Freedman’s Bureau. While it had mixed results, the primary goal of this program was to . provide poor Southerners with food, shelter, work and education.
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 greatest successes of the Freedmen’s Bureau were in the field of education. More than 1, 000 African American schools were built and staffed with qualified instructors. Most of the major African American colleges in the United States were founded with the assistance of the bureau.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -In May 1865, President Andrew Johnson appointed Maj. Gen. Oliver Otis Howard as Commissioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau.