45. Which of the following best describes the activities of the Freedmen's Bureau?
A) It was the first large-scale federal welfare
program in the U. S., assisting both blacks and
whites.
B) It was limited to the establishment of black
schools and enforcing contracts between
freedpeople and landowners.
C) It was designed to provide educational and
economic assistance to freed slaves.
D) It distributed rations and established hospitals,
but anything beyond that was simply not
possible with its very limited budget and total
lack of congressional.

union blockade

explanation:

the union blockade in the american civil war was a naval strategy by the united states to prevent the confederacy from trading.

the blockade was proclaimed by president abraham lincoln in april 1861, and required the monitoring of 3,500 miles (5,600 km) of atlantic and gulf coastline, including 12 major ports, notably new orleans and mobile. those blockade runners fast enough to evade the union navy could only carry a small fraction of the supplies needed. they were operated largely by british citizens, making use of neutral ports such as havana, nassau and bermuda. the union commissioned around 500 ships, which destroyed or captured about 1,500 blockade runners over the course of the war.

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(d) he had been a leader of the sons of liberty.