The fear that communism would spread, like the domina theory that Asian countries would fall to communism like dominos
They served with the Confederacy because they believed that the Confederacy fought the big central government that was being imposed by the Union and they wanted to fight this so as to keep sovereignty over their own land. They believed that the Union government didn't care about them while the Confederacy would give them room to breathe.
The mood of the "Beat Generation" is best reflected in "<span>a. Jack Kerouac's On the Road". This work represented the epitome of a generation of writers and thinkers who went against conventional cultural norms to travel and think progressively.</span>
