The Epic of America

yes grace what does it mean to be an American in 1931 historian James Truslow Adams first publicly defined the American Dream in his novel epic of America Adams often-repeated quo is the American dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better richer fuller for everyone with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement the American Dream is truly what it means to be American because it was what our country was built on and how it continues to grow the idea of the American dream began before America was even created the founding fathers had their own American dream which was created a country that gave people the freedom to achieve their own goals in life throughout America's history new rights and freedoms were created to give the people lives they want to be offered in other countries a few of those freedoms are the 13th amendment that abolished slavery in the