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The Accomplishments Of The Freedmen's Bureau

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I used this textbook to learn many things about the Freedmen’s Bureau. The Freedmen 's Bureau helped former slaves adjust to freedom by providing food, housing, education, healthcare, and employment prospects. The Bureau was created through the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill initiated by Abraham Lincoln. The Bureau distributed 15 million rations of food to African Americans, and set up a system where planters could borrow rations in order to feed freedmen they employed. The most widely recognized of the Freedman 's Bureau 's achievements are its accomplishments in the field of education. Before the Civil War, no southern state had a system of universal state-supported public education. Freedmen had a strong desire to learn to read and write. By

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