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-Government organization created in March 1865 to distribute food and clothing to destitute southerners and to ease the transition of slaves to free persons.Early efforts by the organization to distribute land to the newly freed blacks were later overturned by President Johnson.
A)black codes
B)carpetbagger
C)Civil Rights Act of 1866
D)Compromise of 1877
E)Fifteenth Amendment
F)Fourteenth Amendment
G)Freedmen's Bureau
H)Ku Klux Klan
I)Military Reconstruction Act
J)Redeemers
K)scalawag
L)sharecropping

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The definition describes the Freedmen's Bureau, which was created to assist newly freed slaves and destitute southerners by distributing food and clothing. However, President Johnson later overturned early efforts by the bureau to distribute land to the newly freed blacks.

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