Question

"The oath of allegiance shall be taken . . . every voter in the form above prescribed, but every person known . . . to have held or exercised any office, civil or military, state or confederate, under the rebel usurpation, or to have voluntarily borne arms against the United States, shall be excluded, though he offer to take the oath."

- Wade-Davis Bill


According to the Wade-Davis Bill, who was excluded from being able to take the oath of loyalty to gain the right to vote?

those who held military or civil office in the Confederacy

those who had enslaved labor before the war

those who were enslaved before the war

Answer 1

According to the Wade-Davis Bill, those who were excluded from being able to take the oath of loyalty to gain the right to vote were **those who held military or civil office in the Confederacy** or who had voluntarily borne arms against the United States.