The Freedmen's Bureau worked to help newly freed slaves by providing education, clothing, food, and jobs to former slaves. One of the few opportunities a newly freed slave could take was sharecropping, which is a farming system in which former slaves and poor whites were trapped in a cycle of debt.
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The ___________ worked to help newly freed slaves by providing education, clothing, food, and jobs to former slaves. One of the few opportunities a newly freed slave could take was ___________, which is a farming system in which former slaves and poor whites were trapped in a cycle of debt.
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