RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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the American Missionary Association
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the Freedmen’s Bureau
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the Ku Klux Klan
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the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People-NAACP
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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: -To address this concern, the Secret Service was established in 1865 as a bureau in the Treasury Department to suppress widespread counterfeiting. After the assassination of President McKinley in 1901, the Secret Service was tasked with the full-time protection of the President of the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -In May 1865, President Andrew Johnson appointed Maj. Gen. Oliver Otis Howard as Commissioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Bureau’s records (Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands), kept from 1865-1872, contain a wide range of data about the African American experience during slavery and freedom. Therefore, they are a valuable source for the black family historian. Refugees include many in the local white population.