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Chapter 16: The Crises of Reconstruction Reconstruction 1865-1877 Lincoln?s Plan: ?10 percent Plan? Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, which outlined the path by which each southern state could rejoin the Union. A minority of voters (equal to at least 10 percent of those who had voted in the election of 1860) would have to take an oath of allegiance to the Union and accept emancipation. Then this minority could create a loyal state government. Lincoln?s plan excluded some southerners from taking oath: Confederate government officials, army and naval officers, as well as those military officers who had resigned from Congress or from U.S. commissions in 1861. All such people would have to apply for presidential pardons.
