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The American Dream
February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968
- Idea of opportunity and prosperity
- Belief that anyone regardless or ethnicity or class can attain succdss
- Stock market crash
- October 29, 1929
- 16 million shares were traded due to overvaluation
- panic selling, growing gank loans
- Billions of dollars lost
- 1929 ± 1939
- 'Worst' economic disaster in American history
- GDP and industrial produce fell
- High unemployment rates
- Result of increased government spending on wlfare and military
He earned the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize in 1940
Investopedia (2023
The term was coined in 1930's Epic Of America by James Truslow Adams.
As well as Of Mice and Men, he is known for The Grapes Of Wrath (1939), which won the latter two awards, and East of Eden.
Though the American Dream existed, the 'rewards' it promises have rarely been seen by everyonne because of Racism, Sexism, Classism, etc.
- Homeless encampments around America during the Great Depression
- Housing crisis
- New deal helped bring America out of the Depression
- Dust storms
- 1930's
- Drought
- 2.5 million people migrated out of these states
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