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Historian James Truslow Adams often receives credit for first popularizing the idea of the American dream.
The words American dream gradually began to appear in newspaper articles and books in the mid- to late-1800s, often in reference to hardy pioneers who headed westward to seek fortune, or to European immigrants who arrived in U.S. ports in search of better jobs and homes.