USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

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: -Answer and Explanation: No, the Wade-Davis Bill did not replace the Ten Percent Plan. Named after Benjamin Wade and Henry Davis, both members of Congress, the Wade-Davis Bill required 50% of a seceded state’s white male population pledge loyalty to the Union in order to readmitted to the United States.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.