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Freedman's Bureau
To help both blacks and whites.Helps mostly with their everyday problems.A federal Agency set up to help for more slaves after the Civil war. -
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Reconstruction of Georgia Timeline
Reconstruction means the act of building something again.The time period after The Civil War in which the South rejoined the Union, and rebuilt its society. -
End of the CivilWar(Appomattox)
General Lee surrendered to Grant at at a court house in Virginia.Four long years later, the Confederacy was defeated at the total cost of 620,000 Union and Confederate dead. -
Abraham Lincoln Assassinated
John wilks booth was the shooter.Abraham was shot in the back of the head while at a play.Died the next day. -
13th Amendment Ratified
An Amendment that ended slavery.13th Amendment was passed on 1865. -
14th Amendment Ratified
Made citizenship and equal rughts to all persons born in the united states.passed in 1866.to make people warn or naturalized in the U.S. -
Henry McNeal turner elected to to Senate
Turner was elected Senate.Then he was sent to the Ga. Legislature as a senate.Born free in South Carolina, Turner learned to read and write and became a Methodist preacher. -
15th Amendment ratified
States that the rights of a citizen to vote should not be denied because of color.To the U.S. Constitution passed in 1870. -
Georgia Reradmitted to the Union
Georgia is passed back into the Union in 1870. However, its legislature refused to seat its new black members, so military rule was reimposed. After seating the black members, Georgia was readmitted in1870 the Union. -
election to ruthford B.Hayes
Inagurated as president and ends reconstruction.On a Tuesday,November 14th 1877.
