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What government agency was formed to help African Americans adjust to freedom and to protect their civil rights?

Sons of Liberty
NAACP
Department of Civil Rights
Freedman's Bureau

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Freedmen's Bureau Acts of 1865 and 1866. On March 3, 1865, Congress passed “An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees” to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.

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