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What did the congress create in march of 1865 to help newly freed blacks adjust to freedom?
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Congress created the Freedman's Bureau, an agency with the ability to take on many of the needs that were important to the former slaves. The bureau provided education, housing, built churches and schools, provided healthcare, and acted as an advocate for the blacks who were forming labor contracts with their former masters.
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∙ 9y agoIn 1865 Congress created the Freedmen's Bureau to help black southerners adjust to freedom. It was dismantled in 1869 because it lacked support in Congress.
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What were the competing notions of freedom that existed in the post-war south?
i)Freedom to blacks meant end to slavery, injustice, humiliation. Rights and protections of free men also desiredii)AAs differed over how to achieve freedom: some wanted economic redistribution including land, others wanted legal equality and opportunity. All wanted independence from white controliii)Whites wanted life w/o interference of North or federal govt. Thirteenth Amendment (Dec 1865) had abolished slavery, but many planters wanted blacks to be tied to plantationsiv)March 1865 Congress created Freedmen's Bureau to distribute food, create schools, & help poor whites. Only a temporary solution, only operated for 1 yrSource: http://histnotes.com/US_Ch._15.html
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