Establishment/Ending
In this year, Congress established the bureau.
What is the year 1865?
He was appointed commissioner of the bureau.
Who is Oliver Otis Howard?
The Bureaus' motives were to help these people in addition to African Americans.
Who are poor whites?
The Bureau was successful in building thousands of these.
What is school?
Two amendments passed by the congress.
What are the 14th and 15th Amendments?
The government created this to help the freed slaves in the South.
What is Freedmen's Bureau?
He was elected president after Lincoln.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The bureau was successful in providing all the services but could not do so because of these two things.
What is military and money support?
Name one reason why the bureau failed.
What is underfunded, and understaffed?
This is how millions of African Americans' names and information were recorded for future generations.
What are Handwritten Records?
This is the year the Bureau ended
What is the 1872?
They acted essentially as social workers in Southern Communities.
Who are Bureau Agents?
A discriminatory law that was similar to slavery was interfering with bureau agents from doing their work.
What is Black Codes?
Between these years, African Americans held office in the federal. state and local levels.
What is between 1865 and 1877?
This amendment made African American citizens and protected them from discriminatory state laws.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The purpose of the Bureau.
What is to help newly freed African Americans after the war?
This president signed the act into law for the bureau to oversee all affairs relating to freedmen.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The bureau was able to promote this, but it is not true.
What is land redistribution?
The bureau faced opposition from this group or the president.
Who are Andrew Johnson and the Ku Klux Klan?
The bureau helped African Americans receive these types of rights.
What are civil rights?
Name two of the services provided by the bureau.
What are food, housing, medical aid, education, and legal assistance?
A terrorist organization that harassed and threatened people from helping in the South.
Who is the Ku Klux Klan?
The bureau was also known as.
What is the bureau of refugees, freedmen, and abandoned lands?
Name one of the colleges founded by the bureau.
What are Howard University, Fisk University, and Hampton University?
This amendment guaranteed African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?