aug 1, 1866 - Congress extends the Freedmen's bureau

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- they gave the bureau direct funding for the first time.
-authorized bureau's agents to investigate southern abuses

-initially vetoed by Johnson (racist, but up until this point it had been publicly muted), but his vetoe was overridden

-education (most famous for it), bank (eventually goes under), land (hard with racism and congress)

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