mar 24, 1865 - The Freedman's bureau is set up [ECONOMIC]

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Set up to support freed slaves. It provided food, shelter, hospitals and education.

Set up two universities where black lawyers, scientists and teachers were trained.

Between 1865-66 the Bureau spent $17 million on setting up 4000 schools and 100 hospitals.

However, the Bureau was closed in 1872 after the decline of radical Republicanism.

Evidence of Congress helping, but it was short-lived.

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