<span>The answer is younger Americans were more willing to question authority than their parents before them. Likely the best example of this was the attitude towards the Vietnam War.</span>
The headright system
The headright system caused an increasing difference between wealthy landowners and worker in Jamestown. The headright system was originally created in 1618 in Jamestown, Virginia. It was applied as a way to attract new settlers to the region and address the labor shortage, with the rise of tobacco farming, a large supply of workers was wanted, and as more people came into the region, it later increased tensions between Native Americans and colonists, enslaved servants were granted lands, which was near the natives, this migration produced conflict between the natives and the enslaved servants.
The headright system also resulted in the wealthy becoming wealthier with no benefit to the laborers.
The Zimmerman telegraph, was a telegraph from Germany to Mexico proposing an alliance in which Germany would give the land that Mexico lost to the United States if the Mexican people would fight the United States and keep them out of the war
