Reconstruction of Georgia Timeline

  • Freedmen's Bureau

    Freedmen's Bureau
    The Bureau supervised many relief and educational activities relating to freedmen plus many resources like rations, clothing and medcine.The Bureau also had custody of close lands or property in the Confederate States and Border States. The Bureau had controlled of all abandoned land.
  • End of the Wivil War (Appomattox)

    End of the Wivil War (Appomattox)
    General Robert E. Lee surrendered almost 28,000 troops to General Ulysses S. Grant. This of course ended the Civil War. It all happen when the union cut off Robert E. Lee final force.
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    Reconstruction of Georgia Timeline

    The meaning of the reconstruction is the act of building. South want to join the union again.
  • Abraham Lincoln Assassinated

    Abraham Lincoln Assassinated
    Republican thought Lincoln would not force the rules enough so they think should take over. He was outlawed slavery,canceled the ornament seccion and canceled all the war debts. When Lincoln was assanited there was not a clear program
  • 14 Amendment Ratified

    14 Amendment Ratified
    The Fourteenth Amendment was passed by both houses on 8th June.The amendment was created to let citizenship to protect the civil liberties of slaves. Almost all southern states refused to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment and therefore Radical Republicans urged for it.
  • 13 Amendment Ratified

    13 Amendment Ratified
    The 13 Amendment end slavery offically. Lincoln issused the Emancipation Proclamation which stated all slaves in slave territory wil be forever free. Lincoln belive that the admendment was necessary to make sure that slavery was ended.
  • Henry McNeal Turner elected to Senate

    Henry McNeal Turner elected to Senate
    He was a church organizer and missionary for (AME).Later he was going for bishop.He was a politician and legislator from Macon.
  • Election of Rutherford B. Hayes

    Election of Rutherford B. Hayes
    He got 185 for electoral votes.his popular votes were 4,034,311. His party was republucian
  • 15 Amendment Ratified

    15 Amendment Ratified
    It allowed African-American to vote. First black man to vote was thomas peterson by the authority of the 15 Amendment. It states that anybody can vote no matter their race.
  • Georgia Readmitted to the Union

    Georgia Readmitted to the Union
    It changed the state politically,socially,and economically. Georgia had to accept new construction under the rules of Reconstruction. Georgia actually had to go through the process twice untill going back to the Union.