The goal of the transcontinental railroad was to connect the eastern part of the United States to the western part. Both the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad companies worked to build this long railroad. Some positive effects of the transcontinental railroad included more efficient transportation from coast to coast, a faster spreading of ideas throughout the United States, and increases in global and intercontinental trade. A negative effect of the transcontinental railroad was that racial tensions among Native Americans and other groups arose.
In his "Great Arsenal of Democracy" speech, delivered on 29 December 1940, in the middle of the World War II, Roosevelt portrays the nations of Nazi Germany and its allies as aggressors and with a very different philosophy of government than American's, which consisted of violently dominating the world. He affirmed that If the Axis won the war, they would take over other continents nearby (Asia, Africa, Europe) and would bring enormous military and naval resources against the U.S. as well.
Consequently, the Axis power represented a threat to American society, and thus America, as the great arsenal of democracy, had a duty to help Britain fight the Axis by giving them military supplies while it stayed out of the actual fighting.
Nativism is used in a variety of ways as well as the period to which it alludes, and is allocated to explain sixteenth and even nineteenth-century movements.
The nativism in 1920 was because of the immigration. Warren G promoted a "return to normalcy," which was a resurgence of nativism and isolationism. Isolationism has helped the United States promote the cause of freedom and democracy.
American Indians or Native Americans
