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Question 1

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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?

A 
to organize African Americans into a national political party

B   to encourage African Americans from the South to get jobs in the North 

C   to segregate African Americans through separate but equal opportunities 

D   to help African Americans in the South in making the change from slavery 

Question 2

2.

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

A The passage of Jim Crow laws and black codes. 

B 
ratification of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments

C 
refusal of Southern states to allow sharecropping

D 
passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1866