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    The document discusses the history and evolution of the American Dream from its origins in Thomas Jefferson's writings to its popularization in the 1931 book The Epic of America. It describes how the American Dream was impacted by events like the Great Depression and stock market crash of 1929.

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    The American Dream

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    The document discusses the history and evolution of the American Dream from its origins in Thomas Jefferson's writings to its popularization in the 1931 book The Epic of America. It describes how the American Dream was impacted by events like the Great Depression and stock market crash of 1929.

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    It was a symbol of hope for Americans

    They dreamed that they would have a brighter future


    Pursuit of happiness

    It started when Thomas

    Jefferson wrote the declaration They wanted to get rid of the British in order to prosper on their own Americans able to start again

    He came up with the phrase American

    Dream Introduced it in his book The Epic of America (The Great Depression and The Stock Crash 1929) He wrote: "that American dream of a better, richer, and happier life for all our citizens of every rank which is the greatest contribution we have as yet made to the thought and welfare of the world.

    Black Thursday, October 24, 1929

    when 12.9 million shares of stock

    were sold in one day. Over the next four days, prices fell 23% Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 90% of its value ($30 billion then, $396 billion today)

    Causes by the stock crash and lasted for 10 years

    Unemployment 3%- 25% , wages 42%


    Franklin Delano Roosevelt and WWII

    Abraham Lincoln: Slaves 1865

    President Wilson: Women 1918


    President Johnson: Civil Rights 1967

    The American Dream during the 1920s was described in the

    novel. Be the best you can be "...believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter -- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther..."

    http://useconomy.about.com/od/grossdomesticprodu

    ct/a/What-Is-The-American-Dream.htm http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/artic le/0,28804,2117662_2117682_2117680-1,00.html http://useconomy.about.com/od/glossary/g/StockMarket-Crash-of-1929.htm http://useconomy.about.com/od/grossdomesticprodu ct/p/1929_Depression.htm

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