Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dream, which Adams calls unique in the world's history, is "the belief in the common man and the insistence upon his having, as far as possible, equal opportunity in every way with the rich...
...native colonies"-a considerable setback, thinks Adams, for U. S. civilization. But Washington was wary of democracy and most other aristocrats of the Revolution did not believe in it; it was Jefferson who wrote the Declaration of Independence. "Hamilton stood for strength, wealth, and power; Jefferson for the American dream...
When Andrew ("Old Hickory'') Jack son clumped into the White House the U. S. dream was made flesh. "After An drew Jackson every boy was being told he might be President of the United States." The North began to hustle. "Business ceased to be a mere occupation which must be carried on in accordance with the moral code. It had itself become part of that code. Money-making having become a virtue, it was no longer controlled by the virtues, but ranked with them, and could be weighed against them when any conflict occurred...
While the North industrially expanded, the South's energies were expended in conserving and developing the landed civilization they already had. Not Slavery but Sectionalism Adams considers was the real issue of the clash. When the South lost, its civilization was ruined; an American dream had gone forever-but not the American dream. With the passing of the frontier came "one of the really great turning points in our history." Hitherto, when the West had revolted against Eastern domination the West had always won. But "in 1896 [when Bryan ran for President against McKinley] for the first time...
...power of intellectual direction at the top has already become evident." He thinks Roosevelt "undeniably the greatest Republican President since Lincoln." For Wilson he reserves higher praise: "Here once more was the authentic voice of the great American democracy; here once more was the prophet speaking of the American dream, of that hope of a better and richer life for all the masses of humble and ordinary folk who made the American nation. It was the voice once more of the democratic frontier, of Jefferson, of Jackson, of Lincoln...