The correct answer is B)Pocket vetoed the bill.
The Wade Davis Bill was a piece of proposed legislation created by two Radical Republicans. The goal of this 1864 was to force Confederate states who left the Union to take an oath of loyalty to the United States. Lincoln agreed with this idea.
However, the reason he pocket vetoed it (didn't sign it before the end of the legislative session) was because he disagreed with how many people needed to vote on it. The Wade Davis Bill called for a majority of citizens in former Confederate States to approve the oath. Lincoln, on the other hand, was proposing that only 10% of citizens needed to agree to the oath in order to be accepted back into the Union.
When Congress passed the Wade-Davis bill in response to Lincoln's Reconstruction plans, the president he B. POCKET-VETOED the bill
In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln and Congress began consider the question of the reunited Union would be if the North won the Civil War. In December, President Lincoln proposed a reconstruction program that allow Confederate states to establish new state governments after 10% of male population took loyalty oaths and the states recognized the “permanent freedom of slaves.”
Several congressional Republicans think Lincoln’s 10% Plan is too mild. A more stringent plan proposed by Senator Benjamin F. Wade and Representative Henry Winter Davis in February 1864. The Wade-Davis Bill required that 50% of a state’s white males take a loyalty oath to be readmitted to the Union. In addition, states were required to give blacks the right to vote.
Congress passed the Wade-Davis Bill, but President Lincoln choose not to sign it, by killing the bill with a pocket veto. Lincoln continued to advocate tolerance and speed the plans for the reconstruction of the Union in opposition to the Congress. After Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865, the Congress had the upper hand in shaping Federal policy and imposed the harsher reconstruction requirements.
Grade: 9
Subject: social studies
Chapter: Lincoln's Reconstruction plans
Keywords: Lincoln's Reconstruction plans
