This essay focuses on The Freedmen’s Bureau. some of the major goals  . The Online Click onto the link http://www.freedmensbureau.com/texas/shermanoutrages.htm From the report written by A. Bevans briefly describe two examples of the freedmen, who were murdered.

The Freedmen’s Bureau

Question 1:

From the Lecture Notes, answer the following questions:

Firstly, What do you were some of the major goals ?

Secondly, How effective do you think the Freedmen’s Bureau?

Thirdly, How successful was it in assisting former enslaved people to live in freedom?

Question 2:

From The Freedmen’s Bureau Online

In addition, Click onto the link http://www.freedmensbureau.com/texas/shermanoutrages.htm

Moreover, From the report written by A. Bevans

Further, briefly describe two examples of freedmen, who were murder.

Additionally, Summarize the two examples and cite at the end of the paragraph.

Lastly, Proper format to cite the Primary Document.

Finally, It is always the last name of the person or the group who author the document.

( Freedmen and Abandoned Lands Roll 32)

Abandoned Lands,

The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually refer to as simply the Freedmen’s Bureau,^[1] operate as a U.S. government agency from 1865 to 1872, after the American Civil War, to direct “provisions, clothing, and fuel … for the immediate and temporary shelter and supply of destitute and suffering refugees and freedmen and their wives and children”.^[2]

The Freedmen’s Bureau Bill, which establish the Freedmen’s Bureau on March 3, 1865, as initiate by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, was intend to last for one year after the end of the Civil War.^[3]

The Freedmen’s Bureau was an important agency of early Reconstruction, assisting freedmen in the South.

The Bureau became a part of the United States Department of War, as it was the only agency with an existing organization that could be assign to the South. Head by Union Army

General Oliver O. Howard, the Bureau start operations in 1865. In its first year, its representatives find its tasks very difficult, partly because Southern legislatures pass laws for Black Codes that restrict movement, conditions of labor, and other civil rights of African Americans, nearly duplicating conditions of slavery.

The Freedmen’s Bureau control a limit amount of arable land.^[4]

The Bureau agents

The Bureau’s powers were expand^{[by whom?]} to help African Americans find family members from whom they had become separate during the war.

It arrange to teach them to read and write—skills consider critical by the freedmen themselves as well as by the government.

^[5][6] Bureau agents also served as legal advocates for African Americans in both local and national courts, mostly in cases dealing with family issues.^[5]

 

The Bureau encourage former major planters to rebuild their plantations and urge freed blacks to return to work for them,

kept an eye on contracts between the newly-free laborers and planters,

push whites and blacks to work together in a free-labor market as employers and employees rather than as masters and slaves.^[5]

In 1866 Congress renewed the charter  U.S. President Andrew Johnson, a southern Democrat who has succeed to the office following Lincoln’s assassination^[7] in 1865,

vetoed the bill because he believe that it encroached on states’ rights, relied inappropriately on the military in peacetime, and would prevent freed slaves from becoming independent by offering too much assistance.^[3][8]

By 1869 southern Democrats had deprive the Bureau of most of its funding, and as a result it had to cut much of its staff.^[3][9]

By 1870 the Bureau has weakened further due to the rise of Ku Klux Klan (KKK) violence across the South; KKK-members attack both blacks and sympathetic white Republicans, including teachers.^[3]

Northern Democrats oppose, painting it as a program that would make African Americans “lazy”.^[10]

In 1872 Congress abruptly abandoned the program, refusing to approve renewal-authorizing legislation.

It did not inform Howard, whom U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant had transferred to Arizona to settle hostilities between the Apache and settlers.

Grant’s Secretary of War William W. Belknap was hostile to Howard’s leadership and authority at the Bureau. Belknap arise controversy among Republicans by his reassignment of Howard.