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The Freedmen’s Bureau

The Freedmen’s Bureau. Who Were They? What Were They Trying to Accomplish?. General Outline. What was the Freedmen’s Bureau? Why was the Freedmen’s Bureau important? Who were the men who administered the Bureau? A. National level B. State level C. Local level (the men “in the trenches”)

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The Freedmen’s Bureau

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  1. The Freedmen’s Bureau Who Were They? What Were They Trying to Accomplish?

  2. General Outline • What was the Freedmen’s Bureau? • Why was the Freedmen’s Bureau important? • Who were the men who administered the Bureau? A. National level B. State level C. Local level (the men “in the trenches”) IV. Were Bureau agents conservative servants of the old planter class? Or well-intentioned men who hoped to see the old Confederacy abandon its old ways and join the modern world?

  3. President Andrew Johnson vetoes the Bureau bill

  4. The view of the Republicans in Congress

  5. The view of many white southerners

  6. The Bureau provided rations for the unemployed

  7. The Bureau as “honest broker” between former masters and slaves

  8. A Freedmen’s Bureau school

  9. An exterior view of a Bureau school

  10. An interior view

  11. The burning of a Freedmen’s Bureau school

  12. Everybody wanted something from the Bureau

  13. A marriage ceremony arranged by the Bureau

  14. Bureau regulations on marriage

  15. A Bureau marriage certificate

  16. The Bureau oversaw black voting for the first time in U.S. history

  17. The first vote in Virginia, 1867

  18. Long lines at the polls

  19. Election day became a social occasion in New Orleans

  20. Where were Texas Bureau agents from?

  21. Bureau men = city folkTexans = country folk

  22. A study of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Texas: [Bureau] agents established some order where only chaos had existed, discouraged the resumption of hostilities against the Union, protected freed people against white violence, educated the freedmen, and helped establish them as self-reliant, individualistic Americans with the same legal rights as whites. They established the former slaves as something they had never been in the slaveholding South: citizens.

  23. A study of the Bureau in Virginia: The Freedmen’s Bureau in Virginia did not cater to the whims of the old master class. The actions of Bureau officers pointed toward change, not stasis, the future, not the past. [In searching for Virginians to take over public office from the old Confederacy], the Freedmen’s Bureau searched out those who promised the best hope for change in the Old Dominion, not those who were wedded to “the world before the flood.”

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