The Freedmen's Bureau's sole objective is to benefit the lives of the African Americans that have been freed from slavery. We are an organization geared towards the improvement of these people's lives and towards the reconstruction of lives previously destroyed by slavery. We provide clothing, fuel, and provisions to freed families as well as set up labor agreements between former slaves and masters. The Freedmen's Bureau is responsible for providing jobs and employment opportunities for over three million freed slaves, setting up educational institutions for freed children, and building necessary public organizations for blacks such as hospitals and clinics. Never has the drive to improve the lives of African Americans been so great, and the Freedmen's Bureau is at the head of the effort.
- The Freedmen's Bureau is also known as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Laws.
- This was a U.S. government federal agency that aids freed slaves.
- It is a major part of the Reconstruction era of the United States.
- The Freedmen's Bureau Bill was signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1865, and it is only supposed to last for 1 year after the Civil War.
- The Bureau is led by Army General Oliver O. Howard.