One of the programs enacted by the federal government to facilitate Reconstruction in the South was the Freedmen's Bureau. Which of the following statements about the Freedmen's Bureau are true? Check all that apply.

A. Agents working for the Freedmen's Bureau were united in their philanthropic and selfless mission to aid everyone in need of assistance.

B. Part of the hostility toward the Freedmen's Bureau was its insistence on providing food rations only to blacks when so many whites were
also suffering from hunger and deprivation.

C. The Freedmen's Bureau became the principal agency for overseeing relations between former slaves and owners.

D. One of the main focuses of the Freemen's Bureau was education and literacy for former slaves.