Question

Which one of the following required the majority of the electorate to take an oath before a state could be readmitted to the Union?

Freedmen's Bureau
Force Act
Wade-Davis Bill

Answer 1

The correct answer is:

Wade-Davis Bill.

The Wade–Davis Bill (1864) was proposed for the Reconstruction of the South by two Radical Republicans, Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Representative Henry Winter Davis of Maryland.

This bill established that the re-admittance to the Union of former Confederate states could only be granted if a majority in each ex-Confederate state took the Ironclad Oath to declare they had never seconded the Confederacy.

It never took effect because it was pocket vetoed by Lincoln, who wanted to mend the Union by carrying out the Ten percent plan.

Answer 2

The correct answer is Wade-Davis Bill

Those who wished to be readmitted had to take an oath that they never supported the confederacy in the past and that they renounce everything done before.