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The American Civil War between the Union and Confederate states occurred due to their different stands on slavery. The Union stood against slavery and the Confederates for it. Each were fighting over the national government’s power whether they would prohibit it or not. Then there were border states in the middle of it all who were undecided about the fact. Those territories were Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Maryland. The Northern states won the Civil War on May 9, 1865 and the border states returned to the Union ( During the war, Abraham Lincoln was president of the United States. On January 1, 1863, he created the Emancipation Proclamation. This proclaim only freed the slaves in the rebellion states and even allowed them to enroll …show more content…

The Freedmen’s Bureau, created in 1865 by congress and led by the war department’s General Oliver Howard. Located in eleven different districts, it was created to provide aid for the four million freed slaves. After the slaves were considered free according to the emancipation proclamation a lot of the left the plantations with no foundation. They didn’t have a permanent house, job, or supplies. Freedman’s Bureau was the place for them to get everything they needed after this journey. The kinds of things they provided was shelter, medicine, food, and schooling. They provided aid for black and white poor men. Also, help administer the justice in cases involving freedman and redistribute to them abandoned lands. Freedmen Bureau did everything they could to make sure that the freedmen could get a new life started. Although the white law makers and Ku Klux Klan were against their ideas, Abraham Lincoln and some abolitionist members were for it. The bureau had nine-hundred people to help with distribution, but not enough to keep up with the huge demand of four million people. The positive outcome of it all included marrying slaves together, reuniting them with family, educational lessons from teachers, medical aid, and new

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