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• the ideal of the American Dream • motifs for immigrating • Declaration if Independence • Inalienable Rights
The Ideal of the American Dream • America is a nation of immigrants ● • all Americans are immigrants or descendants of immigrants (apart from the Indians) Motives for immigrating religious refugees: seeking a land where they can practice their faith (e.g. Puritan settlers) ● • political refugees: fleeing from political persecution in their native countries economic refugees: searching for better living conditions ● = they all had in common the dream of a new society where one can develop = this ideal was formulated and written down by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence in 1776 "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator, with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Inalienable rights Equality: • equality of opportunity political equality (right to vote) • racial and social equality ● Liberty: individual freedom (to be free of controls) • religious, economic and political freedom → Pursuit of happiness: ● 8 ● personal fulfilment the belief that you can make it "from the log cabin to the White House", that you can rise "from rags to riches" the ideal of the self-made man America as the land of unlimited opportunities
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The Ideal of the American Dream • America is a nation of immigrants ● • all Americans are immigrants or descendants of immigrants (apart from the Indians) Motives for immigrating religious refugees: seeking a land where they can practice their faith (e.g. Puritan settlers) ● • political refugees: fleeing from political persecution in their native countries economic refugees: searching for better living conditions ● = they all had in common the dream of a new society where one can develop = this ideal was formulated and written down by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence in 1776 "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator, with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Inalienable rights Equality: • equality of opportunity political equality (right to vote) • racial and social equality ● Liberty: individual freedom (to be free of controls) • religious, economic and political freedom → Pursuit of happiness: ● 8 ● personal fulfilment the belief that you can make it "from the log cabin to the White House", that you can rise "from rags to riches" the ideal of the self-made man America as the land of unlimited opportunities
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