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Which best summarizes the effectiveness of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

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It built schools and hospitals for former slaves, but a lack of funding prevented it from doing more.

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In March 1865 after the Civil war, the Freedmen's Bureau was formed by Congress to help the former slaves to get political rights and ensuring their economic development in the South. The Freedmen's Bureau constructed schools, hospitals and offered medical assistance, secured labor contracts for ex-slaves, and resolved labor issues. However, President Andrew Johnson along with some white southerners questioned the authority of the Bureau, restricted its funding, setting off racial strife in the South and the Bureau's eventual collapse.

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