So far as of October 1st, 2008, I learned an abundant amount of information in U.S History class. Being in the last group to blog I had myriad choices to blog about. After learning all the things in class, what interested me the most was the Freedman's Bureau. It interested me the most because it composed many schools and helped out a lot in education. If this Bureau wasn't created, it would provide a harder time for learning due to packed classrooms.
On March 3rd, 1865, the Freedman's Bureau was established by the Congress. This was right before the end of the Civil War. The Freedman's Bureau was only supposed to last one year but on July 16th, 1866, the Congress extended the life of the Bureau over the veto of President Andrew Johnson. This Bureau was targeted to help poor whites, refugees, freedmen, and abandoned lands.
Major General Oliver O. Howard, was the commissioner of the Bureau(under the war department). The ambition of the Bureau was to provide healthcare, establish schools, food, economize abandoned property and restricted property, and etc. The Bureau replenished over 1,000 schools and also black colleges were made and financed with the assistance of the Bureau. They also created teacher-training institutions. The Bureau did an adequate job for education.
Although the Bureau was successful in education, they had some downfalls too. The Bureau failed to help out in land management. The Bureau gave 850,000 acres of desolated land to the freedmen but President Andrew Johnson refunded the land back to the Confederate owners. Since they failed, in giving land to freed men they're back up plan was to help freedmen gain work. They tried to encourage the freedmen to work on plantations but it instead led to tenancy arrangements and cruel sharecropping.
If this Bureau wasn't created a lot of things wouldn't exist. Think about all the black inventors that wouldn't have existed because they had no education. We wouldn't have half the stuff we use everyday in life. For example, the light bulb that was created by Lewis Latimer would also not exist. The Freedman's Bureau contributed a lot to the education branch.
17 comments:
Chan!
I too found the Freedman's Bureau interesting during class discussion. You are absolutely right when you stated that if the Bureau was not created many things would not exist. Peanut butter, jazz music, traffic lights, wooden watches, and mechanical egg beaters were all invented by African American individuals. I cannot imagine if they did not receive the education they desperately needed. All in all, great blog and way to think outside the box Chan. =]
Chan!
Wow you blog was awsome. I ejoy reading your blog and i agree with it a little. But i think you should have mentioned how schools were burned down because they didn't was blacks to get a education. for example they didn't want blacks to learn how to read and write. But over all your blog was good.
i agree with you that Freddman's Bureau was interesting. It helped out poor whites, refugees, and freedmans. Just think if that bill didnt get past. Many americans would not of had an education. that is why Freedman's Bureau was important.
nice blog but i never really understood why didnt the goverment put skools and give the freedman slaves money so they could build their lives all toghter again without someone telling them wat to do and punishing them. the goverment should have made a law so the whites would leave the freed mans slaves alone. even after the war slaes were haunted by the memory of alot of lynchings and alot of killings
Yo kid. i thought that the freedmans bureau was interesting. I really like that you took the time out to talk about it because i know my class didn't focus on it. I never really thought about how many black inventers that are out in the world. Or how the world would be diffrent if they couldn't of been eduacated.
I think your blog was really good. I enjoyed reading it. I like how you talked about the freedmans bureau. I thought that was very interesting when we were talking about it I class. Back then people were really cruel and you made that clear in your blog.
hahaha Chan i enjoyed reading your blog and the BIG words youy used in them. I partially agree with your statement about the classrooms. Classrooms would be packed if the Bureau wasnt created but they would only be packed for African Americans. Most white peoples kids already had a source of ejucation. We organized our ejucation often in churches or other communal places. but thank god for the Bureau because thanks to that and the rights they gave African Americans i have a flat iron!!!!!
Wow chan your blog was awesome. i never thought about it like that. your a pretty smart dude on the low.
Yo chanthizzleee.
I found your blog to be very interesting. You really impressed me with your word choice. The Freedman's Bureau had a great impact on our society. I never really thought about it, how you did. You brought up very good points, with education, and inventors. Like killa said, though they did try to burn down schools, so blacks couldn't be eligible to read and write. However, our schools, are very diversed now.Good job!
Freedoms Bureau was a great idea to put your blog. Without it many things wouldn’t get passed in Congress. Without peanut butter, my life would be over. Great thinking chan.
Wow, your blog was so good. That was very important because with the black schools and colleges we still have those HBCUs around and now some of them have the best education. Your blog was real smart, I just liked it alot.
Chan! haha
Nice post. I agree that the Freedman's Bureau contributed to the success of education, especially for African Americans. Even though blacks were deprived of their right to learn when Congress overrided President Johnson's veto, they eventually were given adequate education as time went on. To reach a goal in life, such as equality, sometimes it means sacrificing a lot of effort and energy. Today, I hope that the growing population of immigrants in the United States will not ever have to suffer through the hardships that African Americans had to endure for years.
The Freedman's Bureau did help out a lot in terms of education and schools. It seems to me that without this Bureau, who knows what would've become of the inventions we use today? I mean, would white people have come up with jazz? Possibly, but this opened doors for blacks that weren't previously opened. Nicely done, and p.s.: keep working on those magic tricks of yours!!
This was an interesting blog. I liked how you compared the similarities, and differences of both the civil war and Apartheid. The major similarity of both the civil war and apartheid is segregation. The reason why I believe that “colored” people, were being segregated was due. To the idea of thinking that people who are not, a certain color are “inferior”. But that was a wrong mentality, because the Bible says we are fearfully and wonderfully made.
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