During the Reconstruction in the years of 1865-1877, Congress was able to establish a group that to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South within the repercussions of the U.S. Civil War. It was called the Freedman Bureau, when it was created 4 million slaves were free because the Union was able to successfully come triumph the Confederates and give the slaves freedom, so they were trapped in the South deteriorating economy and with little knowledge of the outside world. So the Freedman Bureau, “provided food, housing and medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance. It also attempted to settle former slaves on Confederate lands confiscated or abandoned during the war.” The Freedman Bureau also, “helped former
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The bureau also was instrumental in building thousands of schools for blacks, and helped to found such colleges as Howard University in Washington, D.C., Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia.” This bureau was able to construct schools for uneducated former slaves and legal assistance for them, give the people in need medical aid, food and housing not only for former slaves but also the white people impacted by the war. Yet, they didn’t stop there, they were able to, as stated, founded multiple colleges for former slaves and help them legal get married. With all of this happening, you would think that the Reconstruction was a good after all, well that was until, “In the summer of 1872, Congress, responding in part to pressure from white Southerners, dismantled the Freedmen’s Bureau…A lack of funding, coupled with the politics of race and Reconstruction, meant that the bureau was not able to carry out all of its initiatives, and it failed to provide long-term protection for blacks or ensure any real measure of racial equality. However, the bureau’s efforts did signal the introduction of the federal government into issues of social welfare and labor relations.” When the Freedman Bureau was making so much progress, they were pressured to shut done resulting for the true potential of the Bureau to not be shown and the never were able to actually complete their
The bureau also was instrumental in building thousands of schools for blacks, and helped to found such colleges as Howard University in Washington, D.C., Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia.” This bureau was able to construct schools for uneducated former slaves and legal assistance for them, give the people in need medical aid, food and housing not only for former slaves but also the white people impacted by the war. Yet, they didn’t stop there, they were able to, as stated, founded multiple colleges for former slaves and help them legal get married. With all of this happening, you would think that the Reconstruction was a good after all, well that was until, “In the summer of 1872, Congress, responding in part to pressure from white Southerners, dismantled the Freedmen’s Bureau…A lack of funding, coupled with the politics of race and Reconstruction, meant that the bureau was not able to carry out all of its initiatives, and it failed to provide long-term protection for blacks or ensure any real measure of racial equality. However, the bureau’s efforts did signal the introduction of the federal government into issues of social welfare and labor relations.” When the Freedman Bureau was making so much progress, they were pressured to shut done resulting for the true potential of the Bureau to not be shown and the never were able to actually complete their