They believed that governmental power inevitably poses a threat to individual liberty. The governmental power must be restrained.
Rockefeller had little education and began working at the age 16. He studied the growing oil industry and then established an oil refinery in Cleveland in 1863, however, he was barely able to manage it. When he almost got killed in a train crash, he felt it was an omen that he had a purpose. He then made a deal with Cornelius Vanderbilt to ship his oil on Vanderbilt's trains.
In 1870, Rockefeller founded Standard Oil which was a huge success. He paid his workers low wages and worked them long hard hours. He also ran his competitions off. Standard Oil became one of the largest businesses in America. It controlled the oil industry as a Monopoly.
The fearful trip is all about the journey of America during the Civil War. Whitman used this phrase as a figure of speech to express their experience during the war. The poem was dedicated to Abraham Lincoln after his death.
King believed that the Vietnam war has deeply affected the US policy in the US due to too much spending during the Vietnam war. There were projects that had been stopped or funds were cut down because the annual budget is allocated for the war. The Great Society policy was one of the projects that was deeply affected by the Vietnam War.
Explanation:
The Vietnam War had influenced the foreign policy. Because of the US had difficulties in winning in North Vietnam, Soviet and Chinese. The US had tried to do something less confrontational ways in order to reduce opposition between the US and different communist state.