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Created in 1865, the Freedmen’s Bureau aided African Americans by providing food and medical care, helping with resettlement, ensuring justice with contracts and in courts, managing abandoned and confiscated property, regulating labor, and establishing schools. The Freedmen’s Bureau stopped its work in 1872.
What BEST explains the reason why the Freedmen’s Bureau was established?

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Which piece of evidence best supports the idea that the Reconstruction era failed to provide long-lasting civil rights for African Americans?