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Instead of 10% of former Confederates giving an oath of loyalty to the union under Lincoln's plan, the Wade-Davis bill created by Radical Republicans wanted ______ to swear an oath of loyalty before coming back in as states.


a majority


all


25%


75%

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a majority

The Wade–Davis Bill (1864) required a majority (over 50%) of white male citizens in a former Confederate state to swear they had never supported the Confederacy before the state could be readmitted.