Answer:
Option: protecting freed African Americans.
Explanation:
The Freedmen Bureau was a government agency formed by the federal government after the Civil War in America, and it remained from 1865 to 1872. The purpose of the Bureau was to provide food, medical aid, and housing in the South for the freed people in securing their rights and livelihoods. It also gave land to former slaves and tried to put restrictions on slavery. The cartoon from Harper’s Weekly print by Alfred R. Waud, shows an officer (The Freedmen’s Bureau officer) protecting the African American from the angry mob of white Americans who stood against the entire Bureau which gave rights and freedom to former slaves.
