President Kennedy, in his address, compares and contrasts America in 1961 with America in 1776. How is the America of 1961 different from the America of 1776?

America in 1961 seems a vast difference than America in 1766 when America was formed.

Explanation:

President John F Kennedy was the 35th President of America. He was elected to the office in the year 1961. President John F Kennedy promised the people of America an ambitious domestic agenda since the "New Deal",  a promise of reforms and laws that would eliminate the inequality and injustice from the land. But this decade was dominated by Vietnam War and the Civil Rights protest.

While in the year 1766, a new America was born. The second Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia on the 2nd of July in the year 1766 and declared independence to form "United States of America". hey also adopted the Declaration of Independence two days later. This period saw the Revolutionary War or the American Revolution. There were injustice and fight for independence everywhere.