American dream

By jxlia_2007

  • First settlers from England

  • Independence from England

    All men are created equally
    The right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness Is the foundation of the American dream

  • Thomas Jefferson bought Luisiana

  • Irish potato famine

  • Period: to

    Over 1 million people died

  • California Gold rush

    It started when James Wilson Marshall discovered gold in the American River

  • Gold Rush reached its climax

  • 20,000 Chinese immigrants

  • Discrimination began to die down

    America turned its attention toward the civil war

  • The Homestead act

    160 hectar land per Family is given by the government

  • Woman right to vote

  • Movement / civil right act

    Allowing all citizens the right to vote regardless of skin color
    Martin Luther King

  • Study comes to the public