Author Question: The political controversy surrounding the Wade-Davis Bill and the readmission of the Confederate ... (Read 118 times)

laurencescou · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

The political controversy surrounding the Wade-Davis Bill and the readmission of the Confederate states to the Union demonstrated

a. the deep differences between President Lincoln and Congress concerning the political conditions and terms of Reconstruction.
b. the close ties that were developing between President Lincoln and the Democrats over Reconstruction issues.
c. President Lincoln's desire for a harsh Reconstruction plan.
d. that a Congressional majority believed that the South had never legally left the Union.
e. the Republicans' division about whether readmitting the Confederate states to the Union was wise, regardless of the stringent readmission conditions specified in the Wade-Davis legislation.

Question 2

Examples of colonial experience with self-governance, which prepared Americans for a republic, included all of the following except

a. New England town meetings.
b. committees of correspondence.
c. militia service.
d. the relative equality of landowning farmers.
e. the absence of a hereditary aristocracy.