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Reconstruction of Georgia
Reconstruction means the act of building again.
the time period after the civi lwar when Georgia re joined the union. and rebuilt society -
end of the civil war. (appomattox)
On April 7, 1865 Robert E.Lee realized there was little choice but to surrendered to the Union.
robert E. Lee decided to surrender to the union.
On April, 9th 1865 Robert E Lee Surrenedered to the union. -
Abraham Lincoln assassinated
Abraham lincoln was shot in the head at the Fords Theater by John Wilkes Booth.
John Wilkes Booth then Fled the scene.
Abraham Lincoln was carried across the street where he eventually died at 7:22 a.m. -
Thirteenth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.This means that all the slaves were freed -
14TH Amendment
the 14th amendment said that everyone born in this land cannot be taxed.
State and federal ciizenship for all persons regardless of race both born or naturalized in the United States was reaffirmed. No state would be allowed to abridge the "privileges and immunities" of citizens. -
henry Mcneal Turner elected to senate
Henry McNeal Turner was a minister, politician, and the first southern bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
he was a pioneer in Georgia in organizing new congregations of the independent black denomination after the American Civil War
Born free in South Carolina, Turner learned to read and write and became a Methodist preacher. -
15th amendment
The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote.
ratified on February 3, 1870 It would take the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 before the majority of African Americans in the South were registered to vote. -
Georgias Readmittion to the union
At the beginning of Reconstruction, Georgia had over 460,000 Freedmen
in March 1867, passed the First Reconstruction Act, -
freedman's bureau
was a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) in 1865–1872.
Abraham LincolnThe Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which created the Freedmen's Bureau in March 1865, was initiated by President Abraham Lincoln and was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War. -
election of rutherford b. hayes
The United States presidential election of 1876 was the 23rd quadrennial presidential election.
It was one of the most contentious and controversial presidential elections in American history
The results of the election are among the most disputed. Samuel J. Tilden of New York outpolled Ohio's Rutherford B. Hayes in the popular vote, and had 184 electoral votes to Hayes's 165, with 20 votes uncounted
