"The oath of allegiance shall be taken . . . every voter in the form above prescribed, but every person known . . . to have held
or exercised any office, civil or military, state or confederate, under the rebel usurpation, or to have voluntarily borne arms against the United States, shall be excluded, though he offer to take the oath." - Wade-Davis Bill According to the Wade-Davis Bill, who was excluded from being able to take the oath of loyalty to gain the right to vote? those who held military or civil office in the Confederacy those who had enslaved labor before the war those who were enslaved before the war
