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Who created the Freedmen’s Bureau in the 1860's?

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it was established by congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the south after the civil war had happened

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The U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, popularly known as the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War (1861-65).
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