1. American’s dreamDust Bowl Great depression1900 1930-1936 1929-1930

2. Freedom EqualityNotion to make success Happiness Good education Everyone can success Sprit of culture

4. "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement” “It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.” American writer and historian James Truslow Adams

5. - Widespread of materialism in 1920 - Americans are obsessed with wealth -“No society can have one hundred percent of liberty, equality, fairness, and happiness, there must be critics against the dream.”

6. Thomas Edison-Living in the dream

7. “The Dirty Thirties”

8. In the morning the dust hung like fog, and the sun was as red as ripe new blood. All day the dust sifted down from the sky, and the next day it sifted down. An even blanket covered the earth. It settled on the corn, piled up on the tops of the fence posts, piled up on the wires; it settled on roofs, blanketed the weeds and trees.

9. The city was engulfed by the dust storm

10. Bad Agriculture

11. Many families pack and fleet the state – these families were called “Okies”

12. Many emigrants gave up farming, setting up shacks and tents near large cities, hoping to find a job.