Reconstruction of Georgia Timeline

By kyleregisterbllock1
  • Freedmen's Bureau

    Freedmen's Bureau

    It was to help freedmen obtain supplies.
    Encoraged former plantation owners employe freed slaves.
    Congress renewed the charter for the Bureau because president andrew johnson felt it was unconstitutional
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    Reconstruction of Georgia Timeline

  • End of the Civil War

    End of the Civil War

    Lee met with Grant at Appomattox Court House.
    They agreed on the terms of surrender.
    Three days later, 25,000 Confederate troops surrender their weapons.
  • Abraham Lincoln Assassinated

    Abraham Lincoln Assassinated

    President Lincoln was the first President to be assassinated.
    He was killed by John Wilkes Booth.
    Lincon was shot in the back of the head and died the next day.
  • 13th Amendment ratified

    13th Amendment ratified

    It outlawed slavery.
    Was passed 8 months after the Civil War.
  • Henery McNeal Turner elected to Senate

    Henery McNeal Turner elected to Senate

  • 14th Amendment Ratified

    14th Amendment Ratified

  • 15th Amendment ratified

    15th Amendment ratified

  • Georgia Readmitted to the Union

    Georgia Readmitted to the Union

  • Election of Rutherford B. Hayes

    Election of Rutherford B. Hayes