Read the quote below from a northern schoolteacher and use the information to help you answer the question. "Wishing to work where there was the most need – there are so many places where nothing has been done for the freedmen, and where they are sorely persecuted – we came here. A schoolhouse built by the soldiers had just been destroyed by the citizens. The feeling is intensely bitter against anything northern. The affairs of the Freedmen’s Bureau have been very much mismanaged, and our government has been disgraced by the troops who were stationed here." What can you infer from the quote above? The Freedman’s Bureau was succeeding its goals of furthering education.

The local citizens did not support the building of the school house.

Southern citizens appreciated the work being done by this schoolteacher.

Northern soldiers got along well with the local citizens of the South.

The correct answer is B) the local citizens did not support the building of the schoolhouse.

What you can infer from the quote above is that the local citizens did not support the building of the schoolhouse.

The Freedmen’s Bureau was created by the United States Congress in 1865. It aimed to offer relief to former African American slaves and poor southern whites, after the end of the American Civil War. Millions of people were left with practically nothing after the war and were in much need of some kind of help. So what the Freedmen’s Bureau did was to provide legal assistance, food, education, and medical support to improve the lives of these people.

But as we read in the excerpt, "A schoolhouse built by the soldiers had just been destroyed by the citizens. The feeling is intensely bitter against anything northern." This means that white southerners couldn't stand anything that came from their enemies from the North.