President Lincoln, who had earlier proposed a more modest 10-percent threshold, pocket-vetoed the Wade-Davis bill, stating he was opposed to being “inflexibly committed to any single plan of restoration.” When the 38th Congress came to an end on March 3, 1865, the president and members of Congress had not yet reached ...
Congress passed the Wade-Davis Bill, but President Lincoln chose not to sign it, killing the bill with a pocket veto.Feb 8, 2022
The Wade-Davis Bill also stipulated that military governors would be appointed by the president to oversee each previously seceded state. This law would make it more difficult for seceded states to rejoin the Union than Lincoln's plan.
The Wade–Davis Bill of 1864 (H.R. 244) was a bill "to guarantee to certain States whose governments have been usurped or overthrown a republican form of government," proposed for the Reconstruction of the South.
The Wade-Davis bill required also that slavery be abolished in reconstructed states and barred Confederate officials from holding office. The bill drew widespread Radical Republican support and passed on July 2, 1863, a few days before adjournment.
President Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan was not successful. Even before his assassination, the plan was unpopular with some Abolitionists including Frederick Douglass. Opposition from Radical Republicans would also prove to be detrimental to the aims and moderate approaches to the ultimate reunification of seceded states.Nov 9, 2021
In his “Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, ” issued on December 8, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln detailed his plan for Reconstruction. Known as the 10 percent plan, it offered ...
Known as the 10 percent plan, it offered repatriation for Confederate states if 10 percent of eligible voters agreed to an oath of allegiance to the Constitution and the Union and to abide by the emancipation of enslaved people.