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Freedmen's Bureau
It was to help freedman,poor whites obtain food,shelter, and clothing -
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Reconstruction of Georgia Timeline
Reconstruction means to rebuild something again.The time period after the civil war in which the south rejoined the union and rebuilt it's society. -
13th Amendment Ratified
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction". -
End of the Civil War (appomattox)
Georgia's Major General John B. Gordon was chosen by General Robert E. Lee to lead his men down the street to the house of Wilmer Mclean at Appomatox court house in Virginia. In Mclean's home Leee and Union General Ulysses Grant met. General Grant then wrote out the terms the confederate surrender. -
Abraham Lincoln's Assination
Abraham went to Ford's theatre to watch an English play "our American Cousin". Then John Wilkes Booth,an actor who had been loyal to the confederacy entered lincoln's theatre box.At 10:15 p.m. Booth Shot Lincoln in the Back Of The Head. -
Henry Mcneal Turner elected to Senate
In 1868, he was elected state representative,but ha and 14 other black representatives were expelled from the georgia legislature after whites combined in an 82 - 83 votes. -
14th Amendment Ratified
Equal rights to all people born in the U.S. except Native Americans. To help citzenship. -
15th Amendment Ratified
15th Amendment ensures the right to vote, to all male citizens of the U.S.,regardless of color or previous conditions of servitude,to obtain the vote of freed slaves.15th Amendment opened doors for the elections of African Americans to the U.S. Congress and to southern localand state offices. -
Georgia Readmitted to the Union
Georgia was refused to accept the 15th Amendment, which was everybody was allowed to vote. In 1868it was admitted then got kicked to the curb,finally it got readmitted in 1870. -
Election of Rutherford B. Hayes
On November the 7th Rutherford was elected to be the president.Also he won a controversial and fiercly diputed election against Samuel Tilden
