During Reconstruction in the United States, the Freedmen's Bureau​

established in 1865 by the Congress and played an important role during the Reconstruction Era in the Southern part of the United States. After the Civil War, the Freedmen’s Bureau was created to provide protection, economic assistance and ensure preservation of rights for African Americans in the United States. Although it provided prosperity and new rights to blacks, it didn’t last long because the agency did not receive enough support and economic assistance in order to help the blacks. This research addresses the different aids newly freed southern blacks received and the role of the Freedmen’s Bureau during the Reconstruction Era.

The Freedmen’s Bureau provided freedom and multiple aids to around …show more content…

They were offered with services, direct medical assistance and they were allowed to have treatments to cure different sickness, giving them high mortality and a longer life. Although blacks were offered with medical treatments and health aid in order to improve their health conditions, they were still getting poor equipment in bad condition followed with unexperienced service. “Handicaps of inadequate funds and poorly trained personnel.” 

on the morning of  july 21,  1861, general mcdowell ordered the  unionarmy to attack. it was on this hill that  confederate  colonel thomas jackson and his forces held back theunion  troops.