A. Provide 40 acres and a mule for each slave.
B. Gain the vote for millions of former slaves.
C. Provide work, education and relief for former slaves.
D. Get radical Republicans in positions of power in the South.
The primary purpose of the Freedman's Bureau was to "C) provide work, education, and relief for former slaves," since the South was still a very economically and socially hostile environment for the newly-freed African Americans.
