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Freedman's Bureau
The Bureau supervises relief and educational activities of former slaves, refugees, and abandoned land. This is the first federal warfare agency. More than 1,000 black schools were built, and more than $400,000 was spent on instutions for training people who wanted to become teachers for the children. -
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Reconstruction of Georgia Timeline
Reconstruction means when someone is in the act of building something over again. The time period after the Civil War, in which the South rejoined the Union and rebuilt its society. -
End of the Civil War (Appomattox)
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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, his wife, and some friends of theirs went to Ford's Theatre to watch an English play, Our American Cousin. The play was nearly over when John Wilkes Booth, an actor who had been loyal to the Confederacy, enterd Lincoln's theatre box at 10:15 p.m. When the play had reached its biggest laugh, Booth shot Lincoln in the back of the head. -
13th Amendment Ratified
This Amendment states that "Neither slavery nor involutary servitude except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Meaning this abolished slavery in the United States. This was passed by Congress on January 31st, 1865. -
14th Amendment Raitifed
The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to all people that were born in the United States. It states you cannot deny anyone life, liberty, and property with out due to process of law. This greatly expanded the protection of civil rights to all Americans. -
Henry McNeal Turner elected to Senate
Henry McNeal Turner was a was a minister, politician, and the first southern bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. After the war, he was appointed by President Andrew Johnson to work with the Freedman's Bureau in Georgia during Reconstruction. Turner later became politically active with the Republicans, who were for Abraham Lincoln. -
15th Amendment Ratified
This grants all African American men the right to vote by declaring that "the right of citizens shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous constitution of servitude." Through the use of poll taxes, literacy tests, Southern states were able to disenfranchise African Americans. Though it was ratified in 1870, it took almost one century for it to actually be fully realized. -
Georgia Readmitted to the Union
Georgia was unable to maintain a labor force without slavery. Horrible weather had a devastating effect on agricultural production.Property destruction and the deaths of a third of the soldiers caused financial and social crises and recovery was delayed by repeated crop failures. -
Election of Rutherford B. Hayes
The election between Hayes and Tiden was incredibly intense and highly controversal. Hayes was denied the victory of the election for being an "illegitimate president" because he was a fraud. Democrats and Repubicans accused each other of cheating in the election, that one side had taken out votes for Hayes and the other taken out votes for Tilden.
