The freedmen’s bureau helped African Americans economically by helping them to negotiate labor contracts and also helped them to resolve labor disputes.
The United States Congress created the freedmen’s bureau in 1865 to help African Americans. The freedmen’s bureau is also called the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.
<h2>Further Explanation</h2>
The bureau was created to address some of the problems that faced millions of African Americans and poor whites after the end of the civil war.
The bureau solved numerous issues that confronted the poor whites and African America.
The bureau helped the poor white and African American in the following way:
- It provided housing and medical aids
- It provided foods
- It created schools
- It also provided legal assistance
The freedmen’s bureau also made several efforts to resolve some of the issues related to land that was confiscated and abandoned after the civil war.
However, the freedmen’s bureau was not able to fully implement all its programs because it was not adequately funded. There was a shortage of funds and some of its programs were later abandoned.
Also, the freedmen’s bureau received quite overwhelming support from various religious organizations particularly Christian organizations that supported the abolition of slaves in the south
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