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The Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction was an extremely smart move on Lincoln's part. It made the men of the south less bitter and more willing to rejoin the Union. Under Lincoln's plan a minority of voters (equal to at least 10 percent of those who had cast ballots in the election of 1860) would have to take an oath of allegiance to the Union and accept emancipation. Lincoln hoped through his 10% plan would undermine the Confederacy by establishing pro-Union governments within it.