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Bush v. Gore
The election hinged on results from the state Florida. Where the vote was so close as mandate a recount. The outcome of the election was ultimately decided by the U.S supreme court in Bush v. Gore. -
Bush/Gore race
this was one of the closest elections in the U.S history.George bush was a republican and Al Gore was a Democratic. Gore got more of the popular votes and bush got more electoral votes. With that he won the election. -
9-11 terror attacks
there was a total of 4 planes. 2 hitting the the twins tower, one hitting the pentagon, and the fourth one landed on the field. The person in charge of the attack was Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. The reason they attacked the U.S was because they felt like there religion was getting made fun of. So they felt threatened.After the attack we deafeted the Afghan gov.(Taliban) -
War in Iraq begins
in 2003, the U.S invaded Iraq, and invaded their leader Saddem Assein. We had to prevent Hussein from using our weapons against us.Pres. Bush even said it was necessary5. -
Former President Reagan dies
He had a diseased called Alzheimers He died at age 93. Reagan led a revolution that set the economic of the 1980's to end the cold war and revitalized the republican party. -
SE Asian Tsunami
Indiana ocean tsunami was caused by an earth quake that is thought to had the energy of 23,000 hiroghima- type atomic bomber. The tsunami resulted in at least 227,598 fatalities because of the SE Asia Tsunami. -
Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans
It struck the Golf coast of the United States. The winds blowing 100-140 mph and it was 400 miles wide. It damaged so many houses, cars, many people charged that government was to slow to meet the needs of people affected by the storm. Hundreds of thousands of people in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama didn't have homes. After Katrina, it caused more than $100 billion in damage. -
Death of Pope John Paul
he died from a heart attack -
Patriot act passed
Massive expansion of government surveillience after 9/11. The patriot act covered a bit of ground some of its provisions have since been stuck down by the courts others have became part of the mission of the deportment of homeland security which didn't exist when the law was passed. -
Hurricane Rita hits Texas
Rita weakend to category 3 strength before making land fall. September 24 in extreme southwestern lousiana/texas boarder at the time of land fall Rita was a category 3 hurricane with winds of 113 mphand a barometric pressure of 937 mbar -
Nancy Pelosi first female speaker of the house
Nancy Pelosi is the minority leader in the U.S. house of representatives. In 2007 she became the 60th speaker of the house and the first female speaker in american history, a position she held until 2011. She represents California 8th district as a member of the democratic party. -
Steroids in baseball scandel
At least every team (30 teams) was apart of the drugs called "steroids". everyone was to blame. Like the players,Coaches, club owners, Yes they would be punished and that was by a suspension. But again alot of people in the pros didnt do it even if they were accused of doing it. -
First "bailout" begins
The passage into U.S. law on oct.3.2008 of the $700 billion financial sector rescue plan is the latest in the long history of U.S. gov. bailouts that go back to the panic of 1972. When the federal government bailed out 13 united states -
American recovery and reinuestment act
The (ARRA) is an economic stimulus bill created to help U.S economy recover an economic downturn that began in late 2007. It was developed to pressure and create jobs and promote economic recovery -
Aff. care act
The patient protection and affordable care act, aften shortened to the affordable care act (ACA) or nicknamed Obama Care is a U.S federal statute enacted by the 111th U.S congress and signed into law by Pres.Barack Obama -
Pres. Barack Obama inauguration
The presidency of Barack Obama began at noon on January 20, 2009 when barack obama was in a ugurated as 44th presidentof the united states. and ended on jan.20th 2017. Obama a democratic, took office following a decision victory over republican John McCain in 2008
