Freedman's Bureau

An agency created by the goverment that helped and protected newly freed african americans find jobs, homes, education, and a better life

anyone born in the US is a citizen with equal rights-but no real penalties for not obeying

bans slavery in the US and any of its territories

grants citizenship to all persons born in the US and guarantees them egual protectin under the law (due process)

ensures all citizens to vote regardless of race, color, or privious conditions of servituded (suffrage-right to vote)

on the coast of SC, GA, and FL. "40 acres and a mule" but land was returned to confederate soldiers

a result of many AA not having work and working for their former owners. landowners change workers rent and crops for living expenses an using the land and tools

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