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Lewis and Clark
Lewis and Clark explore West in America and allows people to move out west. By people moving out west it allowed the country to grow and allowed people to move west to grow crops to make money -
Erie Canal
Erie Canal allowed ship trade in New York where most of Americans lived. Allowed easy trade with other country and easy trade for Alcohol which influenced the American Dream. -
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was a president known for his ways. He didn't break America into pieces he brought the people of america into unity and he knows how good america can be if we are unified as one group -
Chicago
350 men found the City of Chicago. The city of Chicago is big in america during early 20 century. Chicago high crime rates and unique people influenced the American dream by there ways of life. -
assassination
Andrew Jackson escapes the first ever attempt of assassinating a president and shows people are cruel and sinful and care about only themselves -
Underground Railroad
The Underground railroad shows how slaves escaped from there owners in tunnels to claim freedom. This shows how divided we are as a country and this caused slaves to be worked harder so white people gained more money to spend and become rich. It shows how greedy people are for money and how far they will go to make money. -
Gold
Gold rush begins in California. This is huge and people move out west in search for gold to become rich. This shows how everyone in America is focused on how they can become rich as fast as possible. -
Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter is published and shows struggles in average people in Americas life and helps develop and show what people want for them for there American Dream. -
monopoly are banned
the supreme court ruled oil as a monopoly and this caused the people to make money and live the american dream -
first car
Ford Model T is the first car and made faster time around the country and it helped develop the american dream because every family should have a car -
woman rights
first woman was elected into congress allows equal rights to start to develop the dream of people and how anything is possible in America -
baseball
The white sox scandal and caused people to lose money they gambled and made people realize everything isn't perfect -
18 amendment
amendment is passed and caused american dream to slow down and not have fun since the 18 amendment prohibits the sell of alcohol -
20 amendment
The new amendment allowed voting rights and developed the american dream for woman to do whatever men can do -
Amelia Earhart
she flew across Atlantic ocean and was the first woman to do it so that makes every woman wanna do something never done and pushes woman to do more than any man -
Great Depression
stock market crash everyone needs a new american dream since it hurt every american who bought stocks on margins -
Nuclear Bomb
US drops nuclear bombs on Japan and cause Japan to surrender and US wins war. Now men can come home and start over and make a new dream for them self -
communism scare in America
House on Un-American suspect random people for communism an cause scare throughout citizens after war and slows down the american dream to develop -
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson breaks the color barrier in Americas past time and allows African Americans to have the same american dream as white people. -
polio aid
Jonas Stalk tested is treatment for polio and allows little kids that can't walk have the same dreams as other kids and can have the same dream as others -
Brown vs board of Education
Segregation is ruled illegal and breaks school color barrier and officially allows African Americas to have the same dream as other whites in america -
Elvis
Elvis becomes best selling musical artist ever and allows people to learn how to dance and have dreams to be the next elvis for there dreams
