Benjamin Wade and Henry Davis proposed a Reconstruction plan that a. Congress viewed as less strict than Lincoln's plan. b. allowed only ten percent of southerners who had supported the Confederacy to vote. c. President Johnson and the Radical Republicans supported. d. Lincoln refused to sign into law.

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Roy Webster

2 January, 22:26

Benjamin Wade and Henry Davis proposed a Reconstruction plan that a. Congress viewed as less strict than Lincoln's plan. b. allowed only ten percent of southerners who had supported the Confederacy to vote. c. President Johnson and the Radical Republicans supported. d. Lincoln refused to sign into law.

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Malcolm Miller · Answer 1

The correct answer is D

Benjamin Wade and Henry Davis proposed a Reconstruction plan that Lincoln refused to sign into law.

Ryan Yang · Answer 2

The correct answer is D) Lincoln refused to sign into law.

Benjamin Wade and Henry Davis proposed a Reconstruction plan that Lincoln refused to sign into law.

The reason why President Abraham Lincoln refused to sign into law the plan proposed by Benjamin Wade and Henry Davis was that it was too radical.

The plan was known. as the Wade-Davis bill of 1868. These two were two radical members of the Republican party who believed that the Southern states should be severely punished for their actions in the Civil War. These Republicans demanded the total abolition of enslavement in the Southern states if they were to be readmitted in the Union.