History of the United States I / Unit 16 USH1 2265 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Freedmen's Bureau
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The idea
Congress created the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands in March eighteen sixty-five, approved by Lincoln for one year only.
In practice
Freed people seeking land, financial security, education and political participation.
Where people slip
Congress renewed the charter in eighteen sixty-six and Johnson vetoed the re-chartering, still insisting that restoration was already complete.
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