Question

Identify THREE specific ways the Freedmen's Bureau helped formerly enslaved people in the south.


Taught people to read


Taught women to sew


Issued rations


Issued land

Answer 1

Taught people to read — the Bureau established schools and funded teachers to increase literacy among freedpeople.
Taught women to sew — schools and vocational programs included sewing and other trades to help freedwomen earn wages.
Issued rations — the Bureau distributed food, clothing, and medical aid to formerly enslaved people and other refugees.

(It generally did not widely issue land — most promised/confiscated land was returned to prior owners and large-scale land redistribution failed.)