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: -Anticipating a Union victory, Congress approved the Wade-Davis bill in 1864. It established conditions for the admission of rebel states, requiring 50 percent of white male residents to swear a loyalty oath to the Union and granting suffrage to African American men.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Radical Republicans’ most important measures were contained in the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 and 1868, which placed the Southern states under military government and required universal manhood suffrage. Despite the Radical program, however, white control over Southern state governments was gradually restored.