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Georgia Readmitted to the Union
The devastation and disruption in the state of Georgia were dramatic. The state's chief cash,crop,cotton, fell from a high of more than 700,000 bales in 1860 to less than 50,000 in 1865. The State government subsidized construction of numerous new railroad lines. -
Freedmen's Bureau
It was to help both blacks and whites cope with their everyday problems by offering them clothing,food,and other recessites. Freedmen's Bureau was a U.S. Federal government agency that aided a distressed (freed slaves) in 1865-1872, during the Reconstruction era of the United States. By 1869, the Bureau had lost most of its funding and as a result been forced to cut much of its staff. -
End of Civil War
President Lincoln went to Richmond. Lee wanted to continue to fight. They agreed on the terms of surrender. -
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Reconstruction of Georgia Timeline
The reconstruction is the act of to re build something. The people in the war rebuilt things together. -
Abraham Lincoln Assassinated
The president died the next day. John Wilkes Booth decided to assassinate by President Lincoln. John Wilkes Booth shot president Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. -
13th Amendment Ratified
Offical ending the institution of slavery is ratified. Senate passed the Amendment in April 1864. The ratification came 8 months after the end of the war, but it represented the culmination of the struggle against slavery. -
14th Amendment ratified
Former slaves recently freed. It forbids states from denying any person. The amendment had been rejected by most Southern States but was ratified by the required three-fourths of the states. -
Henry McNeal Turner elected to Senate
Turner was among the 2 state senators and 25 black rebulican state representatives elected to serve in the Georgia legislature. He was a pioneer in Georgia in organizing new congregations of the independent black denomination after the American Civil War. He was appointed as the first black Chaplain in the United States Colored Troops. -
15th Amendment
Granted African American men to vote. The promise of the 15th Amendment would not be fully realized for almost a century. It does not confer the right of suffrage upon anyone. -
Election of Rutherford B. Hayes
He practiced law in Lower Sandusky and was a city soliator of 1865 Cincinnati from 1858 to 1861. He was elected president in one of the most contentious and hotly disputed elections in American history. It was held on Tuesday, November 7, 1876, It was one of the most contentious and controversial presidental elections in American history.
