Question

The Radical republican plan for Reconstruction the Wade- Davis Bill demanded that the Southern states do which of the following?
I. 50% of the 1860 voters take an oath of loyalty.
II. New state constitutions would be written.
III. Secession must be abolished.
IV. Slavery must be abolished.

A. I only
B. II and IV only
C. II and III only
D. I, II, and III only
E. All of them are correct.

Answer 1

Hint: Wade Davis Bill was the unsuccessful attempt by Radical Republicans in the U.S Congress to set Reconstruction policy before the end of the Civil War.

Complete answer: President Abraham Lincoln took a step for the reconstruction of the south and proposed plans to bring the south into the union by giving a 10% plan which says that 10 per cent of the 1860 vote count from that state had to take an oath of loyalty. Radical Republicans opposed the terms as they feared that the aristocracy would be restored and the blacks would be forced back into slavery. They thought that Lincoln’s plan was too lenient towards the South. Radical Republicans passed the new bill known as Wave Davis Bill. Radical reconstruction was bolstered in the 1866 election when more Republicans took office in congress. They passed three important amendments which abolished slavery, federal rights were given and right to vote could not be denied based on race, colour or previous condition of servitude.
Options A, C ,D and E can be easily eliminated.
Therefore, option B is the correct answer.

Note: Slavery was finally abolished in 1865 and in the year 1868 federal civil rights were given to all the U.S. citizen in which all citizens are equally protected by the law which became the basis for many landmark Supreme court decisions over the years.