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Benjamin Wade and Henry Davis proposed the Wade-Davis Bill in 1864, which aimed to impose stricter requirements for Southern states to rejoin the Union after the Civil War. The plan called for a majority of white male citizens in each seceded state to take an "ironclad" oath affirming they had never supported the Confederacy, and it also sought to protect the civil rights of freedmen. The bill was ultimately pocket-vetoed by President Abraham Lincoln, who favored a more lenient approach to Reconstruction. This conflict highlighted the deep divisions within the Republican Party regarding the future of the South and the integration of newly freed African Americans.

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