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    The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. government agency of early post...
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    The Freedmen's Bureau bills provided legislative authorization for the Freedmen's Bureau (formally known as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned...
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    wartime Order No. 15 and similar provisions included in the second Freedmen's Bureau bills. Some land redistribution occurred under military jurisdiction...
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  • of labor contracts and establishing the Freedmen's Bank, President Abraham Lincoln created the Freedmen's Bureau. In 1865, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton...
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    issue the Emancipation Proclamation. Congress later established a Freedmen's Bureau to provide much-needed food and shelter to the newly freed slaves...
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    extending the Freedmen's Bureau beyond its scheduled abolition in 1867, and the first Civil Rights Bill, to grant citizenship to the freedmen. Trumbull met...
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  • Freedman (redirect from Freedmen)
    related to Freedmen. Black Seminoles Choctaw freedmen Creek Freedmen Freedman's Hospital Freedmen's Aid Society Freedmen's Bureau Freedmen's Bureau bills Freedmen's...
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    termination of freedmen schools. Another organization that heavily affected freedmen's education was the Freedmen's Bureau. The Freedmen's Bureau was created...
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    defining the status of freedmen. Many black people left the city permanently because of the hostile environment. The Freedmen's Bureau continued to struggle...
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    Congress enacted the Freedmen's Bureau (also known as the Bureau of Refugees or Freedmen and Abandoned Lands) in 1865. The Freedmen's Bureau could be considered...
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