THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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It provided camps where black soldiers could find their families.
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It provided shelter, food, schools, and legal protection to former slaves.
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It provided loans so that former slaves could buy land and farming equipment.
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It provided courts for former slaves to bring lawsuits against their former owners.
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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: -The Freedmen’s Bureau provided food, housing and medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance. It also attempted to settle former slaves on land confiscated or abandoned during the war.
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 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. Funding limitations and deeply held racist attitudes forced the Bureau to close in 1872.