Question

Which statement BEST describes how the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau differed from the purpose of the Klu Klux Klan?

A
It was designed to assist slaves after the Civil War.

B
It was designed to assist slaves and poor white people after the Civil War.

C
It was designed to provide land and voting rights to all freed slaves.

D
It was designed to protect slaves from the violence of Ku Klux Klan members.

Answer 1

A

It was designed to assist slaves after the Civil War.

Step-by-step explanation:

Congress enacted “An Act to authorize a Bureau for the Welfare of Freedmen and Refugees” to procure food, shade, clothing, pharmaceutical services, and homeland to displaced Southerners, including newly liberated African Americans. The Freedmen's Bureau, formally recognized as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Rejected Lands, was organized in 1865 by Congress to support millions of previous black slaves and disadvantaged whites in the South in the consequence of the Civil War.