The Interstate highway is a great thing for America because it increased the dominance of the automobile. The highway was started in 1956. The development of the Interstate highway wasn’t good for all; it was tragic for all these small towns in America.

Many changes were made to make us the America we are today. Small towns didn’t care about the new America, since all these small towns were dying. The people who lived in these small towns were forced to the big city causing an over population. The over population caused metropolitan areas to be built, but since all these people were being mixed up they had no respect for each other. These are some examples of bad things that came out of the Interstate highway.

Dwight D. Eisenhower thought building the Interstate highway was a great advancement for America but not everyone thought the same way. That’s when the freeway revolt was created. To some point in the 1960s Americans came to see the negative outcome of the Interstate highway. People started to protect schools, parks, and neighborhoods. In other cities where African American had little say the most common thing was that the Interstate highway would be built through a black neighborhood. This was also the choice that had the support of the whites.

However there were many great things coming out of the Interstate highway such as modernizing and increasing in the use of the automobile. You could travel to places faster, people started to modernize, and changes in the economy were made. Citizens started to buy cars. People had up to three cars in one household one for the mom, one for the dad and one for the oldest child. This was a great lift up for America.

Small towns didn’t want the Interstate highway to develop. Many good and bad things came out of the Interstate highway for example the Interstate highway caused many small towns to die but imagine how America would be today without the Interstate highway. It would be so hard to go to school or go to work. The highway also developed many problems such as an over population in the big city. Going through all these problems made us modernize and helped us become the America we are today.