The Wade-Davis Bill sought to make it more difficult than Lincoln desired for those states which had left the Union to return.

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The Wade-Davis Bill was passed by Congress in opposition to Lincoln's more lenient reconstruction plan. It required a majority of white male citizens to take an oath of allegiance before a state could be readmitted to the Union, making it more difficult than what Lincoln had proposed.

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