The government was connected because you were not allowed to assemble back in that time, so the government could storm in any time they deemed suitable to them if they had proper suspicion.
They maintained their own identities instead of "melting together" like described in the melting pot.
In the early 1940s, the United States was determined to prove to the world that her motives for entering World War II were "<span>to re-establish peace in the world," since most of the US was isolationist at this time. </span>
Thomas Paine
wrote the pamphlet called common sense