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The Freedmen's Bureau was one of the most effective Reconstruction ideas because it provided formerly enslaved people with education, food, medical care, and help finding work. However, President Andrew Johnson's lenient Reconstruction plan should have been revised because it allowed Southern states to pass Black Codes and did not sufficiently protect African Americans' rights. Reconstruction would have been stronger if the federal government had required equal civil rights and enforced those protections more firmly.