Question 12 (Worth 5 points)

(MC)The drawing below shows a scene from the South during Reconstruction.

The illustration shows a line of African American men and women at the window of a building. The window is open and a white man sits in the window. An African American woman hands a piece of paper to the white man. Near the woman, a man and a child stand with the man holding a basket.

What activity does this drawing depict?

African Americans joining the Union Army

a Republican postmaster registering new voters WRONG

the Freedmen's Bureau distributing supplies

slaves buying railroad tickets to flee to the North

The Freedmen's Bureau was name of the US Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and the Abandoned Lands, the first federal welfare agency created during the reconstruction period by congress to help the newly freed slaves. They provided medical assistance, built hospitals and distributed rations to more than 3,000,000 people. Although the members of the bureau were poorly trained, they provided medical assistance, built hospitals and distributed rations.Thousand of schools for the Blacks were built by the bureau(e.g Atlanta University).

This bureau was less successful in the matters of Civil Rights and providing lands to the African Americans.to which they were forced to work as sharecroppers on white lands.