1 / 7

Exploring American Identity

Exploring American Identity. Social 20-1. What do Americans share that makes them feel American?. American Revolution (1775-1776) Melting Pot Civil War (1861-1865) The American Dream Being Defenders of Democracy. American Revolution.

sangel
Download Presentation

Exploring American Identity

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Exploring American Identity Social 20-1

  2. What do Americans share that makes them feel American? • American Revolution (1775-1776) • Melting Pot • Civil War (1861-1865) • The American Dream • Being Defenders of Democracy

  3. American Revolution • American feelings of Nationalism grew, they felt they lived in a Nation separate from GB. • Protest lead to a military reaction by the British, fighting started. • Lead to a Declaration of Independence.

  4. Melting Pot • This is the idea that all who came to the US, regardless of ethnicity, religion, etc, would form a “new man”, an American. • This leads to the idea that all new immigrants will assimilate themselves into this ideal “man”

  5. Civil War • This was an armed conflict between North and South. • Originally it was over the question over sovereignty and the freedom of states to make decisions for themselves. • Eventually the issue of Slavery came to the center of the conflict. Abraham Lincoln emancipated the slaves. • There are still unresolved issues from this conflict that affect US society today.

  6. The American Dream • This is based on the optimism that any one person can attain prosperity in the US despite where they come from. • You can reach you goals through hard work and your social and economic class does not matter. • This is a core belief in the US.

  7. Defenders of Democracy • Americans see themselves as defenders of democracy and values they see as American. • From WWII to the Invasion of Iraq, the Americans have gotten involved conflict to protect the value of democracy • This notion explains what the US sometimes does in the world

More Related