Reconstruction of Georgia Timeline

  • Freedman's Burea

    Freedman's Burea
    On march 3, 1865 President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill creating the Freedmen's Bureau, this federal agency oversaw the difficult transition of African Americans from slavery to freedom....
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    Reconstruction of Georgia Timeline

    Reconstruction is the act of rebuilding something. But in terms of the civil war reconstructioni s a time period that the south had to rebuild everything and rejoin the union.
  • End of the Civil War ( Appomattox

    End of the Civil War ( Appomattox
    the final engagement of the Confederate states army where they surrended to the union army ,and signed the surrender document on April 9,1865 at the Appomattox court house..
  • Abraham Lincoln' assassination

    Abraham Lincoln' assassination
    on April 14,1865 at a play at Ford's theatre in Washington D.C Abraham Lincoln was Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, who was a famous actor and confederate sympathizer.
  • thirteenth admendmendment

    thirteenth admendmendment
    On December 6,1865 the thirteenth admendment officially ended slavery. This event came 8 months after the end of war, but represented the cumilation of struggle against slavey....
  • Fourteenth admendment

    Fourteenth admendment
    On July 21,1868 the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the Thirty-ninth Congress, on June 13, 1866. It was declared, in a certificate of the Secretary of State dated July 28, 1868 to have been ratified by the legislatures of 28 of the 37 States.
  • Henry McNeal Turner elected to Senate

    Henry McNeal Turner elected to Senate
    on nov 1,1868 Henry McNeal was elected to senate. and was appointed the first black chaplain of the u.s colored troops...
  • fifteenth admendment

    fifteenth admendment
    on Feburary 2,1870 the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by saying that the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or judged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. this was called the fifteenth admendment which gave black men voting rights, and sinceit was in the month of feburary feburary was called Black history month.......
  • georgia remitted to the union

    georgia remitted to the union
    on july 15,1870 georgia was remitted to the union,but was placed under military rule during the era of reconstruction. at first the state was allowed back into the union in 1868, but it was expelled cause it wouldnt ratify the union.on july 15 georgia was last one of the confederate states to be remitted permantley..............
  • Election of Rutherford B. Hayes

    Election of Rutherford B. Hayes
    rutherford b.hayes was the nineteenth president of the u.s he served the union army from 1861 to 1865. He served as the president from 1877 to 1881..........