What was the goal of the Wade-Davis Bill?
A) It set up a more lenient Reconstruction plan than Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan.
B) It was designed to build up the Republican Party in the South by stripping all white male Southerners of their voting rights.
C) It allowed Southern states to reestablish new governments immediately after the end of the Civil War.
D) It was designed to punish Confederate leaders and destroy the South's slave society by extending a longer period of Reconstruction in the South.

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The Wade-Davis Bill aimed to impose stricter conditions on the Southern states before they could rejoin the Union, including provisions that were intended to significantly alter the social and economic fabric of the South, particularly in relation to its slave society. It was a response to what its authors saw as the too lenient approach of Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan.

What Was the Goal of the Wade-Davis Bill