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Freedmen, Scalawags, And Carpet-Baggers
Republicans tried to help freedmen lots of times during reconstruction. One way they tried to help the freedmen was by creating the Freedman’s Bureau. The Freedman’s Bureau helped African Americans by making schools for them, giving them homes and protecting them. Another way they helped them was by sending troops there so the blacks could vote and the southerners that wanted to kill blacks were not allowed to do anything that could hurt the blacks in public.
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That is an extremely general question. Helped them in regards to what? Economics? Racial equality? What?
The freedmen's bureau is important because it helped to better the lives of blacks after slavery.
The freedmen's bureau is important because it helped to better the lives of blacks after slavery.
They helped flip hamburgers and paint trees
It was an organization that helped former slaves
The South rejoined the union after reconstruction.
Freedmen's Bureau
It was an organization that helped former slaves
Thaddeus Stevens, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives during ... fought to abolish slavery and helped draft the 14th Amendment during Reconstruction. ... and Freemasons, believing that they were contriving plans to unfairly gain.