Straight Roads In America

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Since the dawn of mankind, humans have always held an instinctual desire to travel. There is a route to any destination, and in this day and age, these routes are much faster due to the implementation of interstate systems. These long, straight highway roads provide America’s citizens a place to drive their cars at higher speeds, thus allowing us to reach our destination much faster than taking standard roads. When Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, he set into motion one of the largest construction projects in U.S. history, and introduced an invention that would completely change America’s system of travel for decades to come. As a major war general in World War 1 and World War 2, Eisenhower observed how Germans

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