AP United States History Chapter 16
Terms
Summary
1) Robert Smalls
Robert Smalls was a slave in South Carolina. He became a Union hero in 1862 when he escaped from slavery by stealing a Confederate ship from Charleston harbor and piloting it to the blockading federal fleet. Thereafter, Smalls guided Union gunboats and toured the North recruiting black troops. He eventually became a Congressman and fought for educational and economic opportunities for African Americans.
2) Wade Hampton
Wade Hampton was a South Carolina legislator and one of the richest planters in the South. Hampton joined the Confederate Army and soon became a general. Being greatly shocked by the Confederate’s defeat he spoke wildly of continuing the fight. The postwar years brought great struggles for him, including a forced bankruptcy. He was eventually recommend to Congress by many democrats.
3) Special Field Order Number 15
Issued by General William T. Sherman, the order set aside 40,000 acres of land in Georgia and South Carolina Sea Islands region for the exclusive settlement of the freed people.
4) Lincoln’s “10 Percent” plan
10 percent of the voting eligible people of the nation must vote for the Confederates to return to the Union under stated guidelines.
5) The Wade-Davis Bill
-Demanded a “majority” of white male citizens participating in the creation of the new government
-To vote or be delegate to constitutional conventions, men had to take an “iron-clad” oath (saying that they never partook in the Confederate war effort)
-All officers above the rank of lieutenant, and all civil officials in the Confederacy, would be disfranchised and deemed “not a citizen of the United States”
6) The Wade-Davis Manifesto
Was issued to Newspapers by some Radical Republicans, it contained an unprecedented attack on a sitting president by members of his own party. They accused Lincoln of usurpation of presidential powers and disgraceful leniency toward the eventually conquered South.
7) The Thirteenth
Summary
1) Robert Smalls
Robert Smalls was a slave in South Carolina. He became a Union hero in 1862 when he escaped from slavery by stealing a Confederate ship from Charleston harbor and piloting it to the blockading federal fleet. Thereafter, Smalls guided Union gunboats and toured the North recruiting black troops. He eventually became a Congressman and fought for educational and economic opportunities for African Americans.
2) Wade Hampton
Wade Hampton was a South Carolina legislator and one of the richest planters in the South. Hampton joined the Confederate Army and soon became a general. Being greatly shocked by the Confederate’s defeat he spoke wildly of continuing the fight. The postwar years brought great struggles for him, including a forced bankruptcy. He was eventually recommend to Congress by many democrats.
3) Special Field Order Number 15
Issued by General William T. Sherman, the order set aside 40,000 acres of land in Georgia and South Carolina Sea Islands region for the exclusive settlement of the freed people.
4) Lincoln’s “10 Percent” plan
10 percent of the voting eligible people of the nation must vote for the Confederates to return to the Union under stated guidelines.
5) The Wade-Davis Bill
-Demanded a “majority” of white male citizens participating in the creation of the new government
-To vote or be delegate to constitutional conventions, men had to take an “iron-clad” oath (saying that they never partook in the Confederate war effort)
-All officers above the rank of lieutenant, and all civil officials in the Confederacy, would be disfranchised and deemed “not a citizen of the United States”
6) The Wade-Davis Manifesto
Was issued to Newspapers by some Radical Republicans, it contained an unprecedented attack on a sitting president by members of his own party. They accused Lincoln of usurpation of presidential powers and disgraceful leniency toward the eventually conquered South.
7) The Thirteenth