African Americans: The Loss and Gain of Freedom(1865-1900)
The Civil War ended on April 9, 1865. The period known after the war was
called Reconstruction. During Reconstruction (also called Radical Reconstruction), the
South was in economic, political, and social trouble. In 1865 Congress established the
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. This became known as the
Freedmen's Bureau. It was a bureau ran by the United States Army, with several field
agents that provided medical care, food, helped black and white refugees deprived by the
war to return home, and established schools.
Goals of the African-Americans were to secure physical protection from abuse
and local terror by local whites, equal civil rights, economic independence, and political
participation. During Reconstruction African Americans were given the right to vote, the
use of hospitals, right to an education, to become part of the......
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