History of the United States I / Unit 16 USH1 2252 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Wade-Davis Bill
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The idea
Radical Republicans demanded harsh terms for the defeated Confederacy and strong protections for formerly enslaved people, beyond anything the president had proposed.
In practice
Benjamin Wade and Henry Winter Davis countering in February eighteen sixty-four.
Where people slip
Their bill required a majority to swear the Ironclad Oath, that they had never supported the Confederacy, with refusers barred from southern political life.
Your place on the trail
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