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The Freedmen's Bureau provided food, housing and medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance.
Generalizing from research, we can predict that the presence of others will INCREASE performance on well-learned tasks and DECREASE <span>performance on novel or challenging tasks.
in doing we're doing a well-learned task, our brain could complete it with less focus, so having the presence of others will give no trouble to our task.
But, in challenging tasks, our brain need more focus to complete it, so the presence of others will be more likely to cause nervousness that lead to a decrease in performance</span>
They were important because they made up a part of what is going on today, Hope this helps :)