What Was the Goal of the Wade-Davis Bill

question 9

Multiple Choice

What was the goal of the Wade-Davis Bill?

• A) It set up a more lenient Reconstruction plan than Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan.
• B) It was designed to build up the Republican Party in the South by stripping all white male Southerners of their voting rights.
• C) It allowed Southern states to reestablish new governments immediately after the end of the Civil War.
• D) It was designed to punish Confederate leaders and destroy the South's slave society by extending a longer period of Reconstruction in the South.

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