The American Dream Then

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The American DreamThen Now

• By Zulliveth, Ashley, Marita, Lauren

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Table Of Contents

• Slide 3 What Is The American Dream?
• Slides 4 5 Then Now
• Slide 6 World War I
• Slide 7 Womens Suffrage
• Slide 8 World War II
• Slide 9 War In Iraq
• Slide 10. Work Cited

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What Is The American Dream?

• The American Dream is that dream of a land in
  which life should be better and richer and fuller
  for everyone, with opportunity for each according
  to ability or achievement.
• -James Truslow Adams,
• The Epic of America, 1931
• Home

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Then

• The past is intelligible to us only in the
  light of the present and we can fully understand
  the present only in the light of the past.
  
• -Edward Hallet Carr,
  Historian
  
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.. Now

• Success is somebody else's failure. Success is
  the American Dream we can keep dreaming because
  most people in most places, including thirty
  million of ourselves, live wide awake in the
  terrible reality of poverty.
• Ursula K. LeGuin

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World War I
World War I
What Was The American Dream?
People were forced to pay new taxes and follow
the rules of other governments.
Women took over the jobs that the men worked. It
was unlikely that a woman was not working during
this time or a woman to be taking over the job of
their husbands. During World War I the American D
ream was for the nation to be at peace again
Home
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WOMENS SUFFRAGE
The Womens Suffrage was a fight to gain
equal voting rights as men. During US colonial
times, voting was limited to adult males who
owned property. Many people thought that property
owners had the strongest interest in good
government therefore, they were the best
qualified to make decisions. In the early
nineteenth century, changing social conditions
and the idea of equality led to the beginning of
the woman suffrage movement. Women also began to
participate in reform movements and take
increased interest in politics. With a few
exceptions, women today have the same voting
rights as men. During the time of Womens Suffra
ge being considered equal was womans American
Dream Home
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World War II
In September 1, 1939 German forces marched into
Poland and war broke out in Europe.
This war time building program included a wide
range of construction projects military camp to
train the armed forces, factories to produce
munitions and military transport vehicles
By the end of the war, the government had
invested 23 billion in this massive undertaking.
After WWII many nations were a mess everyones A
merican Dream was to just be at peace and getting
back to normal
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The War in Iraq

• And no longer is the U.S. attacking Sunnis. In
  the wake of the President's 2007 surge, the U.S.
  military is now officially allied with 90,000
  Sunnis of the so-called Awakening Movement,
  mainly former insurgents, many of them
  undoubtedly once linked to the Baathist
  government U.S. forces overthrew in 2003.
  Meanwhile, American troops are fighting the
  Shiite militia of Muqtada al-Sadr, a cleric who
  seems now to be living in Iran, but whose
  spokesman in Najaf recently bitterly denounced
  that country for "seeking to share with the U.S.
  in influence over Iraq." And they are fighting
  the Sadrist Mahdi Army militia in the name of an
  Iraqi government dominated by another Shiite
  militia, the Badr Corps of the Islamic Supreme
  Council of Iraq, whose ties to Iran are even
  closer.
• Many of todays citizens believe that the War in
  Iraq is pointless and that the nation is just
  killing our troops
  
• The American Dream for this nation is for the
  world to come to peace, to stop all the fighting
  and to just go back to the way it was before

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Work Cited

• American Woman and her Political Peers, 1893.
  Henrietta Briggs-Wall. 1911. Manuscript
  Division.
  
• Tom Engelhardt, editor of Tomdispatch.comhttp//ww
  w.alternet.org/waroniraq/84494/
  
• James Truslow Adams in his book The Epic of
  America, 1931
  
• The More Women at Work, the Sooner We Win! Alfred
  Palmer, photographer. 1943. World War II Posters.
  Prints and Photographs Division.LC-USZC4-5600.