The Freedmen's Bureau
A. distributed food to millions of Southern blacks.
B. pushed for voting rights for former male slaves.
C. gave forty acres of land and a mule to millions of Southern blacks.
D. was created to operate for only five years.
E. created millions of federal public works jobs for former slaves.
Answer: A
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WHS AP US History Chapter 15
- In the 1890s, voting percentages in the South
- In the 1890s, pressure in the South to restrict black voting rights came from
- In his 1895 "Atlanta Compromise" speech, Booker T. Washington
- During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Southern agriculture
- Advocates of the "New South"
- Congressional Reconstruction might have been more effective if
- The elections of 1876 saw
- Congressional passage of the Enforcement Acts in 1870-1871
- The Alabama claims
- The Panic of 1873
- In 1868, Ulysses S. Grant
- In the South, the crop-lien system
- During Reconstruction, the black labor force worked
- Black sharecropping
- During Reconstruction, the Southern school system
- During Reconstruction, Southern African-American officeholders
- During Reconstruction, the term "Scalawags" referred to
- In 1868, President Andrew Johnson was impeached because he
- The Tenure of Office Act
- In 1867, Congressional plans for Reconstruction
- In the 1860s, Black Codes were
- The story of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
- President Abraham Lincoln's "ten percent" plan for the South referred to
- In 1865, Southern blacks defined "freedom" as