En appomattox

Reconstruction After the Civil War

  • Freedmen's Bureau Established

    An act is passed that creates the Freedmen's Bureau.
  • Civil War Ends

    General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Grant at Appotmattox.
  • President Abraham Lincoln Assassinated

  • Civil Rights Bill Is Passed

  • Thirteenth Amendment Ratified

  • Georgia Put Under Military Rule

  • Andrew Johnson Impeached

  • Fourteenth Amendment Ratified

  • Ulysses S. Grant Elected President

  • Georgia Act of 1869 Ratified

  • Fifteenth Amendment Ratified

  • Georgia Readmitted into Union