Fill in the blanks Word bank: Confederacy, Freedmen's Bureau, Union, housing, industrial, plantation, schools, slaves

The (blank) was established in 1865 by Congress to help former black(blank) in the South in the aftermath of the U. S. Civil War. Some 4,000,000 slaves gained their freedom as a result of the (blank) victory in the war, which left many communities in ruins and destroyed the South’s (blank) based economy. The Freedmen’s Bureau provided food,(blank) , and medical aid, established (blank) and offered legal assistance to former slaves as well as poor whites. It also attempted to settle former slaves on Confederate lands confiscated or abandoned during the war