was forced to formulate the latest approach after a bipartisan plan released Tuesday was torpedoed ... he would be re-elected speaker in the new Congress. Johnson said passage of the bill would ...

Reconstruction of the South ... July: In response to Lincoln's plan, Congress passes its own, the Wade-Davis Bill. It ups the allegiance requirement from 10% to a majority of a state's voters ...

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude ...