Well, fear is created when there is a threat. WW2 Had just ended, so of course America did not want any other nation to become more powerful than them, for the idea that it would end up being like Germany. Americans also wanted to protect democracy, so communism was a major threat to the USA and it's beliefs. Naturally, America wanted to prove dominance to the USSR, thus the beginning of the cold war.
The railroad decreased transportation time across the United States from about six months to roughly "one week," which was incredibly important in terms of settlement and business in the west. <span><span>
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The Catholic church had more influence because of the location of the Vatican it is in the south so the priest would travel mostly around the south to spread the word of God.
Scottish<span> settlers continued to come to </span>Ireland<span> throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. </span>Scots-Irish<span> immigrants settled in the </span>American<span> colonies from the 1600s. ... The majority of the </span>Scots-Irish<span> who came to </span>America<span> in the colonial period settled in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the Carolinas.</span>