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It was created by congress to help freedmen and poor whites get food, shelter, and clothing. Freedmens Bereau also created schools for former slaves
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south states surrendered at Appomattox couthouse.Robert E. Lee signed the surrender.This ended the Civil War
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At Fords Theatre,John Wilkes booth shot Abraham Lincoln while he attended a play .Booth fled and was later caught and killed.Lincoln was the first us president to be assassinated.
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The amendment outlawed slavery and had to be met by southern states to rejoin.States had to write a new constitution that outlawed slavery.Canceled war debt and secession
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The Fourteenth Amendment made all people born in the U.S,citizens.This also gave equal rights to all cictizens . Southern states had to pass this Amendment to rejoin the Union.
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Henry McNeal Turner was one of the first African - Americans to serve in Georgias government after the civil war. He was a preacher from Bibb county, Georgia. Many white men did not like him for his radical positions
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This amendment guaranteed all male citizens could vote .Any male regardless of race ,color, or pervious servitude could vote.Southern states had to pass this amendment to rejoin the union
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The Georgia legislature ratified the 15 Amendment and congress of ficially readmitted Georgia to the union. All federal troops left Georgia. Democrats took control of Georgias government
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The election of Rutherford B. Hayes was the official end of Reconstruction in the south. He was tied with Samuel Tilden for eletoral votes , but made a deal with the remaining southern states to end the reconstrution. This was called the Compromise of 1877
