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Freeman's Bureau
The Freeman's Bureau was an important agency of the early Reconstruction, assisting Freedman (freed ex-slaves) in the south. It was apart of the U.S. Department of War. The Bureau encouraged former plantation owners to rebuilt their plantations. -
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Reconstruction of Georgia Timeline
Recnstruction is the act of rebuliding. The south had to rebuiled their destruction to the union. -
End of the Civil War (Appomattox)
A fight between the US and several Southern slave states. The confederacy was defeated, after four years of bloody combat, slavery was abolished. The difficult Reconstruction process of restoring unity and guaranteeing rights to freed slaves began. -
Abraham Lincoln Assassinated
His assassination occured five days after General Robert Lee, surrendered to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinted. The assassinated was planed by the sage actor John Wilkes Booth. -
13th Amendment Ratified
The 13th Amendment Rathified, the us constitution officially ending the intitution of slavery, is ratinied. When the war began, the north were against fighting what they saw as a crusade to end slavery. Licoln realized that is was folly to wage such a bloody war without plans to elimate slavery. -
14th Amendment Ratified
The amendment had been rejected by most Southern states. It was ratified by the required three-fourths of the states. -
15th Amendment Ratified
Giving the African-Americans the right to vote. The promise of the 15th Amendment wouldn'y be fully realized for almost a century. Through the use of taxes, literacy tests and other means. -
Georgia Readmitted to the Union
After the Civil American War, devastation and disruption in the state of Georgia were dramatic. The indability to maintain a labor force without slavery. The misabrale weather had a disatrous effect on agriculture production. -
Election of Rutherford B. Hayes
He was elected presdent. He was the 23rd presdent. The results of the election are among the most disputed. -
Herny McNeal Turner elected to Senate.
A minister, politician, and the first southern bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a pioneer in Ga in organizing new congregations of the independent black denomination.
