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A feeling of expectation and desire for a better future.
What is hope?
A period of severe economic hardship in the 1930s.
What is the Great Depression?
The state of owning a house, often seen as a sign of success.
What is homeownership?
The ability to make choices without restrictions.
What is freedom?
The Italian explorer who reached the Americas while searching for a new trade route to Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The achievement of goals, often related to wealth or career.
What is success?
The historian who popularized the term "American Dream."
Who is James Truslow Adams?
Residential areas outside of big cities where many families live.
What are suburbs?
The process of gaining knowledge and skills, often through schooling.
What is education?
The way early migrants traveled to America, often enduring long and tough journeys.
What are ships?
A person who moves to another country to live permanently.
What is an immigrant?
The state of not having a job despite wanting to work.
What is unemployment?
Having enough money to cover needs and emergencies.
What is financial security?
Changing and adapting over time.
What is evolving?
A statue that is a symbol of freedom and the first sight for many immigrants arriving in the U.S.(a gift by France)
What is the Statue of Liberty?
A strong will to keep going despite difficulties.
What is determination?
The state of being extremely poor, lacking basic needs like food and shelter.
What is poverty?
The unfair difference in opportunities or treatment between groups.
What is inequality?
Managing time between work and personal life.
What is a work-life balance?
The year Columbus discovered the Americas.
What is 1492?
A group of people born and living around the same time.
What is a generation?
To successfully deal with a challenge or hardship.
What is overcome?
Groups of people who are smaller in number within a society, often facing social or economic disadvantages.
What are minorities?
Feeling satisfied with one’s life and achievements.
What is personal fulfillment?
A novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald that critiques the American Dream.
What is The Great Gatsby?