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Puritan experience
Many Puritans came to America in search of religious freedom. -
Benjamin Franklin;Poor Richard's Almanac
Benjamin Franklin published the calendar that includes several interesting things such as seasonal weather forecast, puzzles, quizes, and few other amusements. It was popular not only for its uniqueness but also for its extensive use of wordplay, -
Declaration of Independence
This document, composed by Thomas Jefferson, declared the independence of all American and contributed to their dream towards better country, -
Immigration
From 1836 to 1914, over 30 million Europeans migrated to the United States. They came to America following the dream of freedom of religion, better working conditions and wage, and politic. -
Manifest Destiny
Americans believed that they're destined to expand across the continent, searching for the another dream of wetern expansion. -
Industrialism
After the Civil War, the cotton mill business and few types of business like steel manufacturing and textile begun to pervade the whole nation. It accelerated the country's development and enabled a lot of thing that needs to achieve their american dreams, chasing economic independence. -
Horatio Alger
Alger was the one of prolific 19th-century American authors and he wrote lots of novels about midle class's tough life through hard work, courage and determination to be succeed. He supported Union during the Civil War, and wrote the poem about it as well. -
Henry Ford's Assembly Line
The Ford Motor Company had popularized the assembly line system and was able to produce cars at a much faster rate. The assembly line greatly reduced risk in the workplace but allowed things to be built much, much, faster. It revolutionized American society and molded the world we live in today. -
Consumerism
It is a social and economic order based on fostering a desire to purchase goods and services in ever greater amounts. As America has been economically developed, they consumed a lot as well. They've been looking for better goods and services. -
Women's suffrage movement
They pursued and argued their right of vote. By sufficient states in 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment prohibited state or federal sex-based restrictions on voting. -
New Deal
It was a series of economic programs implemented in America. They hoped it would get themselves out of the Great Depression and help them to make more progress economically. -
J.D.Sallenger;Catcher in the Rye
It has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage confusion, angst, alienation, and rebellion. -
Urban Decay
Urban decay is the process whereby a previously functioning city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude. -
Televisions
Americans begun to look for 'quick' wealth by luck. Through TV entertainment industry, American dream is more a matter of luck than hard work. -
Shortcut to the wealth
They started to desire to the shortcut to wealth rather than working hard and thrift.
