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The Freedmen's Bureau was established to do all of the following except:

a act as a kind of welfare agency for those in need after the war;
b provide food, clothing, and medical care to slave refugees;
c settle former slaves with forty-acre tracts confiscated from the Confederates;
d relocate blacks West or force them into labor contracts with former masters;
e provide education that would help close the gap between blacks and whites

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Final answer:

The Freedmen's Bureau did not aim to relocate blacks West or force them into labor contracts with former masters; it focused on providing welfare, medical care, assistance with land, and education.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Freedmen's Bureau was established after the Civil War to assist freed slaves (freedmen) and destitute people in the South. According to the choices provided, the correct response is that the Freedmen's Bureau was established to do all of the following except: d relocate blacks West or force them into labor contracts with former masters. Its primary functions included acting as a welfare agency, providing food, clothing, and medical care, assisting in the settlement on land, although not specifically forty-acres tracts confiscated from Confederates, and promoting education to help close the gap between blacks and whites. The Bureau also aided in family reunification, labor contracts, and establishing educational institutions such as Fisk, Hampton, and Dillard Universities. It played a significant role in laying the foundations for black citizenship and self-sufficiency in the reconstructed South.

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