prezentacja na lekcje j.angielskiego - autor P. Grzybek

1. THE
AMERICAN
DREAM

2. What is American Dream?
• The American Dream is the freedom that allows all citizens
and most residents of the United States to pursue their
goals in life through hard work and free choice
• The phrase's meaning has evolved over the course
of American history. The Founding Fathers used the phrase,
"life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." It began as
the opportunity to achieve greater material prosperity than
was possible in their countries of origin. For others it is
the opportunity for their children to grow up and receive
an education and its consequent career opportunities.
It is the opportunity to make individual choices without
the restrictions of class, caste, religion, race, or ethnic
group.

3. FROM RAGS TO RICHES
• Development and discovery of new areas and natural
riches provided the base on which American economy
expanded. A web of railroads and tracks spread across the
country. This expansion helped to increase nation’s steel
industry and sprawned coal production. Betweeen 1870
and 1910 the population grew from 40 to 90 mln. As a
result demand for farm products rose and scientific
advances made farmers use the soil more efficently.
Railroad expansion made farming regions more accessible
and the farm machinery was in common use. In industry
changes were stimulated by new manufacturing initiative.
In the 1870’s textile mills began to sprawl up in the cotton
states. Iron and steel production made many cities boom.

5. Statue of Liberty
• Statue of Liberty was presented to the United States by
the people of France in 1886. Standing on Liberty Island
in New York Harbor, it welcomes visitors, immigrants, and returning
Americans traveling by ship. The copper-clad statue, dedicated
on October 28, 1886, commemorates
the centennial of the signing of the United States Declaration
of Independence and was given to the United States to represent
the friendship established during the American Revolution.Frédéric
Auguste Bartholdi sculpted the statue and obtained a U.S. patent
for its structure
• The statue is of a robed woman holding a torch, and is made
of a sheeting of pure copper, hung on a framework of steel with
the exception of the flame of the torch, which is coated in gold leaf.

6. Immigration

7. Waves of immigration:
American immigration history can be viewed in four epochs: the colonial period, the
mid-nineteenth century, the turn of the twentieth, and post-1965. Each epoch
brought distinct national groups - and races and ethnicities - to the United States.
The mid-nineteenth century saw mainly an influx from northern Europe; the early
twentieth-century mainly from Southern and Eastern Europe; post-1965 mostly from
Latin America and Asia
Wacławowo - Chicago
Chinatown - Philadelphia
Little Italy – New York

8. Ellis Island
Between 1892 and 1954 more than 12
million people passed through the
Ellis Island Immigration Station in
New York Harbour to begin life in a
new country. This is the heritage of
untold millions of United States
citizens today, who entered through
Ellis Island themselves or are the
children or grandchildren of those
who did. The Station opened in 1892
and closed in 1954. During those
years it was a symbol of dramatic,
sometimes traumatic experience of
beginning one’s life anew in a strange
land, with unfamiliar customs, and in
most cases, a different language. The
immigrants came with few resources
but with endless hopes.

9. The American
Constitution
1787

10. Martin
Luther King
 Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15,
1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American
clergyman, activist and prominent
leader in the African-American civil
rights movement. His main legacy was
to secure progress on civil rights in the
United States and he is frequently
referenced as a human rights icon
today.
 King's efforts led to the 1963 March
on Washington, where King delivered
his “I Have a Dream” speech. There, he
raised public consciousness of the civil
rights movement and established
himself as one of the greatest orators
in U.S. history.
 In 1964, King became the youngest
person to receive the Nobel Peace
Prize for his work to end racial
segregation and racial discrimination
through civil disobedience and other
non-violent means.