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What did much to educate and provide jobs for newly freed slaves following the end of the Civil War.?
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands was an American federal government agency that assisted newly freed slaves. The bureau encouraged freed slaves to find employment, assisted with finding lost family, and taught freed slaves to read and write.
How did the government help free slaves get jobs and education after the civil war?
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands was an American federal government agency that assisted newly freed slaves. The bureau encouraged freed slaves to find employment, assisted with finding lost family, and taught freed slaves to read and write.
What did most newly freed slaves do in the period immediately after the Civil War?
They Got Jobs, share-cropped and some made agreements with thier former owers to get paid for doing the same work the did when they were slaves.
Where did many freed slaves go to find factory jobs and jobs working in shipping?
Cities in the North
Had economic ties to slavery and did not want to compete with free African - Americans for jobs?
Copperheads were a minority of Ohioans against the American Civil War.. Many had migrated from slave owning states and still had family involved in slavery. They did not want black slaves freed because they did not want to have to compete with newly freed blacks for jobs.
What did northern democrats known as copperheads organize out of fear?
freed slaves would take there jobs
What did the freedmen's bureau do to help freed slaves?
It gave many slaves education, jobs, food, and it also helping them to find a way to get jobs and something to do so they wouldn't have to go into poverty.
What was life like for freed slaves after the civil war?
Freed slaves were treated poorly after the Civil War. With the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, freedmen were usually terrorized. It was usually difficult for freedmen to get jobs as well.
What economic concern fed the fear of abolition in the North?
The north feared that if slaves were freed, they would loose jobs because slaves would work for a lot less. This eventually did happen.
What statement describes a major challenge facing former slaves after the abolition of slavery in the US?
Some states passed laws that kept freed slaves from exercising their right to vote
What happened to freed slaves during the civil war?
They ran their own lives and got jobs and made money
What is one of the black codes?
"blacks" "african americans" "freed-men and women" were not allowed to quit their jobs.
