As stated by James Truslow Adams in his book “The Epic of America” written in 1931, the American dream is “the dream of a land in which the quality of life should be better, richer and fuller for every citizen of the land, with opportunities for each and everyone in accordance with their achievements and abilities, the dream is a metaphor to the European upper classes and a hard one to define and interpret adequately, just as a significant number of us has lost trust in it. It is not merely a dream of motor cars and high wages; but a dream of social order in which every man and woman shall be in an equal position to attain its fullest stature of which they are innately capable and recognizable by others for what they are, regardless of fortuitous circumstance of birth or position.” (Adams 214) Several sentiments have been considered to being the foundation of the American Dream with the most popular being the statement by the authors of the United State Declaration of Independence which held certain self evident truths that “All men are created equal, they are endowed by their creator with certain unreliable rights which among others include the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” (Congress) The homesteaders who left the big cities of the east to pursue happiness and their place of land in the unknown wilderness were chasing their inalienable rights. The immigrants who left their ancestral land and moved to the United States were looking for their bit of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Such immigrants were the well educated Germans who were freeing the failed 1848 revolution. Their new world embraced political freedom without aristocratic or hierarchical society that ceiled their individual aspiration. Their sentiments also echoed the contents of the American Dream; “they had come to a country that is free from despotism monopolies and privileged orders, intolerable taxes and constrains in bel