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Reconstruction-to try to rebuild again.
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Freedmen's Bureau was formed to help protect the new blacks who were free in the South after the Civil War. On July 1, 1869, Freedmen's Bureau was dicontinued. The activites of Freedmen's Bureau still continued for three years, though.
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Lee met with Grant at Appomattox court house, and they agreed on the terms of surrender.This event happened in Appomattox county, Viginia. This meant that the Union had victory.
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Abraham Lincoln went to go see a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. A famous actor named, John Wilkes Booth shot him at Ford's Theatre. John Wilkes Booth escaped after he shot Abraham Lincoln.
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It was the amendment that officially ended slavery. Eight months later the amendment became ratified after the Civil War. The North wanted slavery to end, but the South did not.
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This Amendment was rejected by some of the Southern states. This Amendment basically said, that all people were born equal, and it granted citizenship. Women also used this Amendment to proclaim their right to be abke to vote.
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After he served in the state's Constitutional convention, he got elected to the Goergia House of Representatives. He was suppose to Represent Macon. He also recieved threats from the Ku Klux Klan.
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This Amendment ensured African American men to vote. It said, "Citizens should not be denied the right to vote based on their race, color, or previous condition or servitude." This Amendment was both sucessful and not sucessful.
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It got readmitted because it finally accepted the 15th Amendment. It was also accepted in 1868, but it did not accept the 15th Amendment, so it got kicked out. Georgia was the last former confederate state that was readmitted to the Union.
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Rutherford B. Hayes was the governor of Ohio then he was nominated at a convention. If he was elected, he was only going to serve one term. He was a Republican.
