INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
PRE INDUSTRIAL EUROPE
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Reconstruction Bureau
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Bureau of Southern Affairs
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Freedmen’s Bureau
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FEMA
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Detailed explanation-1: -Known as the Freedmen’s Bureau, this temporary federal agency undertook the formidable and unprecedented responsibility of safeguarding the general welfare of both recently liberated slaves and white refugees in the former Confederacy.
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: -Howard’s headquarters were in Washington, DC, but assistant commissioners, sub-assistant commissioners, and agents conducted the Bureau’s daily operations in the former Confederate states, the border states, and the District of Columbia.
Detailed explanation-4: -Under-funded by Congress and opposed by President Andrew Johnson, the Bureau only operated between 1865 and 1872. The Freedmen’s Bureau plays a key role in the Museum’s Slavery and Freedom and Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation, 1877-1968 exhibitions.