The correct answers B) The war department could provide the financial resources needed to support freedmen. and C) Military power was needed to protect former slaves.
For two months, the Senate debated what Executive department should run the Freedmen’s Bureau. The reasons that were given in support of granting oversight to the Department of War were "The war department could provide the financial resources needed to support freedmen. and Military power was needed to protect former slaves.
For sixty days, the bill was debated in the Senate. They were discussing the department that should operate the Freedmen’s Bureau. Some of the Senators supported the idea that the Department of Treasury was the one because Congress had given the Treasury department the control of confiscated land. But the majority of Senators considered that the Department of War had more experience than any other agency in the government and had the soldiers and weapons to protect the African Americans who had been slaves.
The ban against enslaving Muslims was observed very strictly in Hausaland in many ways. For example. if a non-believer would become a Islamic so called "believer", he would no longer would be someone's possession (slave). This is somewhat illogical because anyone could say that they are a Muslim just to become a free man or woman.
Americans who advocated annexation evinced a variety of motivations: desire for commercial opportunities in Asia, concern that the Filipinos were incapable of self-rule, and fear that if the United States did not take control of the islands, another power (such as Germany or Japan) might do so.
