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What was Major General Oliver Howard's daunting assignment in 1865?
What was Major General Oliver Howard's daunting assignment in 1865?
- Overseeing the transition of Southern society from slavery to freedom (correct)
- Ensuring access to education for freed people
- Making sure local courts treated blacks fairly
- Protecting blacks from violence
What was the primary purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?
What was the primary purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?
- Ensuring fair treatment in local courts for blacks
- Providing education for freed people
- Ensuring access to land for freed people (correct)
- Protecting blacks from violence
Why did white Southerners deeply resent the Freedmen's Bureau?
Why did white Southerners deeply resent the Freedmen's Bureau?
- It was supposed to ensure fair and equitable relations between white and black (correct)
- It was supposed to provide education for freed people
- It was supposed to protect blacks from violence
- It was supposed to ensure access to land for freed people
What did freed people long for under slavery?
What did freed people long for under slavery?
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What was the basis of being truly free for many freed people?
What was the basis of being truly free for many freed people?
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