Historical Significance Of The Freedmen's Bureau

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Freedmen’s Bureau:
Definition: An agency established by northern missionary societies and groups of ex-slaves in 1865 to protect the legal rights of former slaves and to assist with their education, jobs, health care, and landowning.
Clarifier: The Freedmen’s Bureau was one of the largest federal agencies to protect and aid to the less fortunate creating a social revolution resulting in profound changes in the nature of citizenship, the structure of politics, and the meaning of American freedom.
Historical Significance: Not only did The Freedmen’s Bureau help to achieve new rights for slaves that were not established before the civil war, but they also aided in the guidance of the freed people’s recovery after the war by enforcing

Clarifier: Stemmed from a country where suffrage had become the understanding of freedom, The Know-Nothings began as a secret organization that when members were asked about its existence, they were told to say “I know nothing” and thus is how they received their name.
Historical Significance: The rapid increase in immigration led to many abolitionist parties like The Know-Nothings, but because of overpopulation due to immigration, the need for expansion grew to create the Mexican-American War and brought about new commerce, wealth, and self-sufficiency to the American people. Although the threat to Native American citizens like The Know-Nothings and African American people was purely due to the overpopulation and immigrants working hard for a lesser pay, it ultimately led to the replacement of slaves in fields and factories of America (creating some of the most productive citizens that we have ever known), increased the African American status quo, and benefitted social reform for many native citizens and immigrants of