Reconstruction of Georgia Timeline

  • Freedman's Bureau

    Freedman's Bureau

    It helped the people with their problems by offering food and clothes. This was very important because it helped alot of the people survive.
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    Reconstruction of Georgia Timeline

  • End Of the Civil War (appromattox)

    End Of the Civil War (appromattox)

    Where Lee surrendored to Grant. It was the ending of the Civil war. This event was important, because the war had ended.
  • Abraham Lincoln Assassinated

    Abraham Lincoln Assassinated

    Abraham Lincoln was killed in Ford's Theater by John Wiles Booth. He shot him at 10:15 pm. He was watching a play and John Wilkes Booth came up the stairs and snuck behind presisent Lincoln and shot him in the head.
  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment

    The 13th amendment that ended Slavery. The amendement also outlawed slavery. Involuntary Servitude was outlawed too.
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment

    This amendment gave citizenship to all people born in the U.S. Which includes the former slaves who left the Civil War. This amendment is all about the people's citizenship.
  • Henery McNeal Turner elected to Senate

    Henery McNeal Turner elected to Senate

    African- American minister, politian, and 1st southern bishop of the African Methodist church. In 1863 during the Civil War, Turner was appointed as the 1st African- American U.S. Colored Troops. Afterwards, he was appointed into the Freedmen's Bureau and later was elected to the State Legislaturein 1868 during Reconstruction.
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    The black community joined with the whites in the southern states to elect the Rubuplican Party to power. Later in 1870 the former Confederate states had been readmitted into the Union, and most were controlled by the Rubuplican Party, thanks to the black voters.
  • Georgia Readmitted to the Union

    Georgia Readmitted to the Union

    After the War Georgia had a hard time. Georgia had a population of 950,000 white people in 1860. The state's black population, more than 460,000 newly freed Slaves, confronted s new world with hope.
  • election of Rutherford B. Hayes

    election of Rutherford B. Hayes

    Hayes was the 19th president of the United States. As president, he oversaw Reconstruction. In 1876, Hayes was elected president in one of the biggest elections of American history.