Multiple choice

What was the Wade-Davis Bill?

  1. It was a plan harsher than the one conceived by Lincoln.

  2. It was a plan created to keep slavery in the South.

  3. It was a plan created by the Radical Democrats.

  4. It was a plan more lenient than Lincoln's.
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Explanation

The Wade-Davis Bill of 1864 was proposed by Radical Republicans who felt Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan was too lenient. It required a majority of white male citizens in a Southern state to take an "ironclad oath" of allegiance before the state could be readmitted, making it much harsher than Lincoln's plan.

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