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