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Wade-Davis Act?

Why is the Wade-Davis Act important to the Reconstruction-Era?

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Belle

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Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Rep. Henry WInter Davis of Maryland formulated a congressional plan which required half the white adult males to take an oath of allegiance before drafting a new state constitution and restrict political power to hard-core Unionists.

When the Wade-Davis bill passed on the final day of the 1864 congressional session, Lincoln exercised his right to pocket veto.

Bear in mind that Radical Republicans in the 1860s were against slavery. As for Reconstruction, it was due to racism, war, government ironies, & ongoing violence from many opposing sides that Reconstruction had failed.

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