How were Lincoln and Marshall's plans different?
The Marshall Plan focused more on the unity of all of the European nations involved in World War II. It wanted to help everybody. It also involved seeking outside aid, the United States. It's main goal was to help its own countries restore their economy after the war, but it also
composed the European countries' efforts to aid developing countries. Several organization were formed through this, like the O.E.E.C. and the O.E.C.D.
The Lincoln Plan didn't exactly promote unity. The Union was more interested in punishing the Confederacy., than trying to become unified with them. They wanted the Confederacy to pay back loans. They didn't communicate with the Confederacy. If they did, they were expressing rules of theirs that the Confederacy had to follow. Like their Oath of Allegiance. After Andrew Johnson modified the Reconstruction Plan, rules for the Southerners were even more strict, like the fact that they had to approve the 13th amendment.
If Lincoln's Plan for reconstruction was more like the Marshall Plan, Reconstruction after the Civil War would've gone much smoother. I think that, if they'd had representatives from both sides agree on certain terms, it wouldn't have been as much uproar. The Southerners wouldn't have been so mad and groups like the Ku Klux Klan probably wouldn't have been formed. Reconstruction would have been much more peaceful.
The Lincoln Plan didn't exactly promote unity. The Union was more interested in punishing the Confederacy., than trying to become unified with them. They wanted the Confederacy to pay back loans. They didn't communicate with the Confederacy. If they did, they were expressing rules of theirs that the Confederacy had to follow. Like their Oath of Allegiance. After Andrew Johnson modified the Reconstruction Plan, rules for the Southerners were even more strict, like the fact that they had to approve the 13th amendment.
If Lincoln's Plan for reconstruction was more like the Marshall Plan, Reconstruction after the Civil War would've gone much smoother. I think that, if they'd had representatives from both sides agree on certain terms, it wouldn't have been as much uproar. The Southerners wouldn't have been so mad and groups like the Ku Klux Klan probably wouldn't have been formed. Reconstruction would have been much more peaceful.