Freedman's Bureau

After the Civil War ended in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln organized a reconstruction plan for the nation as soon as the Union won. The plan Lincoln proposed consisted of new constitutional laws that prohibited slavery. On December 18th, 1865 Congress ratified the thirteenth amendment banning slavery from the nation. The South reacted to this plan by rebelling. They had many things to adjust to, such as the Freedman, life after the Civil War, and the military and political challenges.

Freedman's Bureau was a bill that came into effect after Lincoln's assassination and provided assistance to the black's that have been freed from slavery. The Bureau enforced freedmen's legal rights, set up schools and hospitals that supplied medical care, and helped employ them. Many northerners called "carpetbaggers" went down to the south to help the freedmen in ways such as missionaries, teachers, businessmen, ect. After President Andrew Johnson vetoed the bill,
After being contained in prison camps, once veterans were released they couldn't find any source of support. They had difficult times finding jobs and usually lived on the streets. Since they lost the war, the southerners were angry and treated them badly. They were no hero to the South. Some veterans found it easier to self-exile themselves from the nation, going to countries such as Canada and England. The biggest effect on them had to be the fact that the North won, and not them.

Reconstruction was a time after the Civil War when the transformation from old south to new south was trying to be made. Historically this period was huge for civil rights because slavery ended. The southerners tried to keep old southern traditions through violence and discrimination. North took act on it eventually and passed laws. Today, we will learn from old South's mistakes and take into effect everything that we've learned from the Reconstruction