<span>During World War II, security concerns in the United States prompted the "internment" of thousands of Japanese American citizens, which was and still is deemed a major breach in civil liberties. </span>
Plate tectonics is what you are referring to?
a better Government than what the colonies were all ready under. IE British rule
The power of political machines was weakened by the introduction of "antitrust legislation" which sought among other things to eliminate corruption in business.