Significant Person

The whole concept of the American Dream as in 1931 when James Truslow Adams invented the term "The American Dream". He gave the idea that with hard work and luck you could achieve all your goals. This was a change for many people because originally if you wore born poor that was your destiny for your whole life. As this concept was put into action, people started seeing that if you worked for it you could change the way your life was, for instance, your social class.

        
                                

 Citations 

http://www.allabouthistory.org/mayflower-compact.htm

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Restoration/USDeclaration.html

http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade30.html

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/about.htm