The Freedmen’s Bureau was created in 1865 during the Lincoln administration, by an act of Congress called the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill. Britanica.com, documents that the Freedmen’s Bureau, formally known as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, was meant to give aid to over 4 million former slaves. They provided aid for food, housing, oversight, education, health care, and employment contracts with landowners. This was a planned step to integrate ex slaves into society.