NCES.AH2.H.8 - Analyze the relationship between progress crisis and the "American Dream" within the United States.
- NCES.AH2.H.8.1 - Analyze the relationship between innovation, economic development, progress and various perceptions of the "American Dream" since Reconstruction (e.g., Gilded Age, assembly line, transcontinental railroad, highway system, credit, etc.).
- NCES.AH2.H.8.2 - Explain how opportunity and mobility impacted various groups within American society since Reconstruction (e.g., Americanization movement, settlement house movement, Dust Bowl, the Great Migration, suburbia, etc.).
- NCES.AH2.H.8.3 - Evaluate the extent to which a variety of groups and individuals have had opportunity to attain their perception of the "American Dream" since Reconstruction (e.g., immigrants, Flappers, Rosie the Riveter, GIs, blue collar worker, white collar worker, etc.).
- NCES.AH2.H.8.4 - Analyze multiple perceptions of the "American Dream" in times of prosperity and crisis since Reconstruction (e.g., Great Depression, Dust Bowl, New Deal, oil crisis, savings and loan crisis, dot.com bubble, mortgage foreclosure crisis, etc.).