The westward expansion came together with the development of technologies that created modern work environment that we see today. This require a lot of people to be self-capable to survive in such working environment.
This situation really reflect the iconic American ideal of self-reliant individuals that we see in our society today.
The Soviet Union’s means of cutting off Eastern Europe from the rest of the world and turning them communist.
as an agrarian republic in which states and localities held most of the power
The racial and religious discrimination against Jewish people. Think of Nazism.
Book burning because everyone must have an oppose for a book, but he burnt all the books that opposed to him, without a doubt.