USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Led by the Radical Republicans in the House and Senate, Congress passed the Wade-Davis bill on July 2, 1864-co-sponsored by Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Representative Henry Davis of Maryland-to provide for the admission to representation of rebel states upon meeting certain conditions.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -It was written by two Radical Republicans, Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Representative Henry Winter Davis of Maryland, and proposed to base the Reconstruction of the South on the federal government’s power to guarantee a republican form of government.