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: -Known as the 10 percent plan, it offered repatriation for Confederate states if 10 percent of eligible voters agreed to an oath of allegiance to the Constitution and the Union and to abide by the emancipation of enslaved people.

Detailed explanation-3: -Among the conditions was the requirement that 50 percent of white males in the state swear a loyalty oath, and the insistence that the state grant African American men the right to vote.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Wade-Davis Bill stipulated that former Confederate states could return to the Union only after a majority of their citizens had taken the “Ironclad Oath, ” swearing that they had never voluntarily borne arms against the Union or supported the Confederacy.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Wade-Davis Bill required that 50% of all voters in the Confederate states, as opposed to Lincoln’s proposed 10%, must pledge allegiance to the Union before reunification. Along with the loyalty pledge, the Bill would abolish slavery within the rebel states.