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Mind Map by chrishenry97, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by chrishenry97
over 11 years ago
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American Dream
- Meanings
- "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty...
- ...and the pursuit of Happiness
- ...and the pursuit of Happiness
- Ultimately it has meant different things for
different people at different times
- "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty...
- New Frontier
- Most of western America was unexplored and
largely uninhabited
- People who traveled west and settled on free land were
known as frontiersmen
- Poor people became these as it
promised the chance of a better life
- This was their
American Dream
- You could become your own boss
and make your own fortune
- Poor people became these as it
promised the chance of a better life
- The reality was that life was very
tough for frontiersmen
- By 1900 there was no more frontier and
this created a sense of pessimism that the
American Dream was dead
- Most of western America was unexplored and
largely uninhabited
- Great Depression
- During the 1920s a new American Dream developed
- Investing in the stock market seemed to
be a way of getting rich quickly
- The Great Depression ended this and
American society became very pessimistic
- Investing in the stock market seemed to
be a way of getting rich quickly
- During the 1920s a new American Dream developed
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