it doesn't have to be necessarily something like the Boston Tea Party it can be more modern. I just want to know what you think is something important in American History. Lots of people have different opinions.
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2007-08-25 18:47:55 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I think our change from being "isolationists" in the twenties and thirties, to giving in and taking part in world opinion and aide, was a big factor.
Since then we've taken part and have fought wars on all continents and countries, fought and died on all islands from the North bearing sea the the South Pacific.
I has turned us into a " Police protective state" and the world has expected us to do the job for them.
With this Iraq war, we've become unpopular, most countries have refused to aide us and now we're in a dilemma over it.
I think if we were to draw back and become "Isolationists" once again, let the world solve it's own problems, let these smaller Nations fight their own battles and lose their own sons and daughters, leave us alone and close our borders.
We would be better off.
2007-08-25 22:30:19 · answer #1 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The moon landing, July 20th 1969. Humans are exploratory and colonising by nature, the very exitence of the United States of America is evdence of that. We will explore and colonise other worlds, never doubt that.
The day Columus first set foot on the American continet he planted the seed for the emergence of the USA we know today. Neil Armstrong did the same thing for the future of the whole human race - we just don't know it yet.
In two hundred years historians will wonder what is was like to be there when we first set foot on another world - and they'll arge even longer about why we took so long to go back.
2007-08-26 06:23:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1.Boston Tea Party: US is born
2.Gold Rush: US grows
3.Civil War: Lead America into an industrized, capitalism, and united country under a powerful central government. Before Civil War, US was more like a union of states like EU today
4.Joining World War 1: after WW1, US could finally surpass European empires
5.New Deal: Gave democrats a new solution to economics
2007-08-26 05:54:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The attack by the Combined Northern Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy on U.S. military installation in the Territory of Hawaii on December 7, 1941. It ended the Great Depression and ended pacifism as a popular feeling among the American population for the remainder of the 20th Century.
2007-08-26 01:54:41 · answer #4 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was President Lincoln’s disregarding of a State’s right to secede and creating the situation which led to the Union invasion of the sovereign country of the Confederacy. This act, his continuing initiating extra-constitutional acts, followed at the end of this war the instituting of the 14th Amendment [1868] and that supported by the Supreme Court decision in Texas v. White [1869] that the federal government could do things due to ‘right of conquest’ without regard for the constitution.
These acts changed the functioning of the Constitution for evermore (for example applying the Bill of Rights to the States when it was meant only for the federal government) and allowed the federal government to more easily function outside of its delegated powers.
2007-08-26 12:27:30 · answer #5 · answered by Randy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favorite is still Dec. 7th, 1941 which propelled us into WWII.
That led to America emerging as the world power we have remained to this day.
It started a wave of prosperity to levels far above anything
previously experienced by any nation at anytime in history.
2007-08-26 01:58:40 · answer #6 · answered by Spreedog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Roaring '20s..
Made a great impact with the Ford company..Prohibition..Flappers..The changes of the dance/music..just updating America as a whole
2007-08-26 14:19:53 · answer #7 · answered by MiniWhelton 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
The secession of the Southern states that lead to the Civil War.
2007-08-26 05:56:00 · answer #8 · answered by meg 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
9-11.
This still may be a sore spot to some people, but I feel the need to tell my story aout it anyways.
Although it started so many terrible things that still go on today, America really pulled through during that time. I remember I was in 5th grade when it happened, and in my school's choir we went around and sang patriotic songs at different places. It made me feel really connected to my country at that time, and it also had me realize that there are things out there that need attention more than myself.
2007-08-26 01:58:10 · answer #9 · answered by Mimi;* 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The migration of European folk over the Appalachian Mountains.
2007-08-26 02:02:03 · answer #10 · answered by cafegroundzero 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋