Along with insufficient resources and white
intransigence, the agency's indefinite future at times
stymied its effectiveness and limited its scope of reform.
Those limitations notwithstanding, the bureau was an
important source of support for Georgia's freedpeople,
providing educational opportunities, furnishing rations
for the sick and indigent, ensuring a measure of justice,
and perhaps most important, bringing some stability for
Georgians of both races as they adjusted to the realities of
postbellum life.
-“Freedmen's Bureau,"
Edward A. Hatfield
What prevented the Freedmen's Bureau from achieving
its goals? Check all that apply.
The agency lacked the needed funds.
White southerners fought against them.
Land for schools and hospitals was limited.
The agency was not firmly established in the South
Formerly enslaved people did not want to accept
the agency's help.
Republican officials did not want to work with the
agency