During the 1930s and the era of the New Deal, travel brought to the American people opportunities that positively impacted their lives during a rather negative time. They were presented with the opportunity to settle in new places with hopes of a better life, given new styles of music that had not yet hit the mainstream, effectively revolutionizing the way American music was viewed not only then, but today, and they were encouraged through the federal government to spend time touring their country and reevaluating what it truly meant to be an American. Travel and tourism can largely been seen as a means to escape life for a moment, however during the 1930s, it was used to convince people that better times were to come. The travels of the American people had a direct impact on the development of a new American culture.
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