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The Wade-Davis Bill was introduced in 1864 during the American Civil War. It was a bill proposed by Senator Benjamin Wade and Congressman Henry Winter Davis to give a more stringent reconstruction plan for the Confederate states than the plan proposed by President Abraham Lincoln. The bill proposed harsher terms for the former Confederate states, such as requiring a majority of white males to swear allegiance to the United States and to the emancipation of their slaves before being readmitted to the Union. The bill was never passed, as Lincoln pocket-vetoed it before the Congress adjourned in July 1864.