Background: On March 4, 1865, the U.S. government created a temporary federal agency- the Freedmen’s Bureau to assist 4 million freed slaves in making the transition from slavery to freedom. The agency distributed trainloads of food and clothing provided by the federal government to freed slaves and Southern white refugees. They built hospitals for the freed slaves and gave direct medical aid to more than 1 million of them. The greatest successes of the Freedmen's Bureau were in the field of education. More than 1,000 negro schools were built and staffed with qualified instructors. Most of the major negro colleges in the United States were founded with the assistance of the bureau.
The Freedmen’s Bureau – One way Reconstruction could have gone – a government agency designed to help poor whites and freed slaves transitionMandate is huge
1. Help establish a free labor system in the south
2. Establish schools for the Freedman
3. Provide aid to the destitute food, goods, shelter
4. Adjudicate disputes (labor of law infractions)
5. dispense and provide justice
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