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Freedmen's Bureau
It was to help freedmen obtain supplies.
Encoraged former plantation owners employe freed slaves.
Congress renewed the charter for the Bureau because president andrew johnson felt it was unconstitutional -
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Reconstruction of Georgia Timeline
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End of the Civil War
Lee met with Grant at Appomattox Court House.
They agreed on the terms of surrender.
Three days later, 25,000 Confederate troops surrender their weapons. -
Abraham Lincoln Assassinated
President Lincoln was the first President to be assassinated.
He was killed by John Wilkes Booth.
Lincon was shot in the back of the head and died the next day. -
13th Amendment ratified
It outlawed slavery.
Was passed 8 months after the Civil War. -
Henery McNeal Turner elected to Senate
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14th Amendment Ratified
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15th Amendment ratified
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Georgia Readmitted to the Union
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Election of Rutherford B. Hayes
