jan 1, 1865 - Freedman's
Bureau est.
Description:
- Radical Republican measure
- Support agency providing food, clothing, education for freed slaves
- divided ex-slave states into districts managed by assistant commissioners
- Failed to est. the freed slaves as landowners
- Organized the Black vote for the Repub. party, creating great dislike for the bureau from Southerners
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