Proposed by a Senator from Ohio, it never took effect because President Lincoln pocket-vetoed it.
Proposed by a Senator from Ohio, it never took effect because President Lincoln pocket-vetoed it. This bill would have required a majority of a state's citizens to fulfill an oath of allegiance to the  Union, and would have disqualified from public office anyone who had served in the Confederacy. For ten points, identify this Civil War Radical Republican bill passed on July 2, 1864, attempting to regulate Reconstruction policies.
Proposed by a Senator from Ohio, it never took effect because President Lincoln pocket-vetoed it.
{Wade-Davis} Bill