In a time of mass immigration to the United States, citizens became overjoyed with the idea of the American Dream. This period of time was at the turn of the nineteenth century to mid twentieth century. There were many issues where people with old money (acquired wealth because of inheritance) were considered of higher class than people with new money (wealth acquired by hard work). Consequently, books were written on this topic, one of which …showed first 75 words of 914 total…

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