USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Wade-Davis Reconstruction Bill would also have abolished slavery, but it required that 50 percent of a state’s White males take a loyalty oath to the United States (and swear they had never assisted the Confederacy) to be readmitted to the Union.

Detailed explanation-2: -To gain admittance to the Union, Congress required Southern states to draft new constitutions guaranteeing African-American men the right to vote. The constitutions also had to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment, which granted African Americans equal protection under the law.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 split the states of the former Confederacy into five military districts and specified how new governments-based on manhood suffrage without regard to race-were to be constituted.

Detailed explanation-4: -For the Southern states, the requirements for readmission to the Union were also fairly straightforward. States were required to hold individual state conventions where they would repeal the ordinances of secession and ratify the Thirteenth Amendment.