why was the freedman's bureau created? brainly
Freedmenâs Bureau. 1  Oliver O.  Freedmenâs Bureau, (1865â72), during the Reconstruction period after the American Civil War, popular name for the U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, established by Congress to provide practical aid to 4,000,000 newly freed African Americans in their transition from slavery to freedom.