American’s dream
Dust Bowl
Great depression
1900
1930-1936
1929-1930
Freedom
Equality
Notion tomake success
Happiness
Goodeducation
Everyone cansuccess
Sprit ofculture
"life should be better and richer and fuller foreveryone, with opportunity for each accordingto ability or achievement”
“It is not a dream of motor cars and highwages merely, but a dream of social order inwhich each man and each woman shall beable to attain to the fullest stature of which theyare innately capable , and be recognized byothers for what they are, regardless of thefortuitous circumstances of birth or position.”
American writer and historian
James Truslow Adams
- Widespread ofmaterialism in 1920
- Americans areobsessed with wealth
-“No society can haveone hundred percent ofliberty, equality,fairness, and happiness,there must be criticsagainst the dream.”
Thomas Edison-Living in the dream
Thomas Edison-Living in the dream
“The DirtyThirties”
In the morning the dust hung like fog, andthe sun was as red as ripe new blood. Allday the dust sifted down from the sky, andthe next day it sifted down. An evenblanket covered the earth. It settled on thecorn, piled up on the tops of the fenceposts, piled up on the wires; it settled onroofs, blanketed the weeds and trees.
The city was engulfed by the dust storm
Bad Agriculture
Many families pack and fleet the state– these families were called “Okies”
Many emigrants gaveup farming, setting upshacks and tents nearlarge cities, hoping tofind a job.
