The answer to your question is
The main difference between being poor in America and Europe in the 19th century etc. was that America offered much more opportunities due to the fact that it was a nation that was being built up from the ground. This meant that poor people and people of low education could at least get various jobs in construction and related things whereas in Europe, the opportunities for such people were much smaller.
The Declaration of Independence
We can tell that Eisenhower was a conservative, because he vehemently opposed the Soviet Union and introduced the domino theory, which was the belief that communism would spread to countries neighboring communist countries. Conservatives are very capitalist and were very afraid and against communism, which they associated with tyranny. Eisenhower was on the other hand a civil rights activist, sending troops to desegregate public schools in Little Rock, Arkansas. He equally desegregated the army in two years and set up NASA, so that their could be peaceful aeronautical innovations.
