William Primes
Turning Points
In
history there have been turning points that have a great impact. Some examples
are The Red Scare in which innocent people were being called Communism and back
then that was punishable by death or long jail time. Other examples are the
Civil War which the slaves were liberated and the south wanted their freedom
and The Attacks on the Twin Towers on 9/11. The civil war and the twin towers
are two that really had the biggest impact on American history and two situations
we still talk about today.The civil war and the attacks on 9/11 are two turning
points that had the biggest impact on American history and two situations that
we still refer to today.
The Civil War is the central event in
America's historical consciousness. While the Revolution of 1776-1783 created
the United States, the Civil War of 1861-1865 determined what kind of nation it
would be. The war resolved two fundamental questions left unresolved by the
revolution: whether the United States was to be a dissolvable confederation of
sovereign states or an indivisible nation with a sovereign national government;
and whether this nation, born of a declaration that all men were created with
an equal right to liberty, would continue to exist as the largest slaveholding
country in the world. The Civil War started because of uncompromising
differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national
government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become
states. When Abraham Lincoln won election in 1860 as the first Republican
president on a platform pledging to keep slavery out of the territories, seven
slave states in the South seceded and formed a new nation, The Confederate
States of America. They fought for the keeping slaves. The event that set the
war in motion is when the South opened fire on Fort Sumter. After that day the
war stared and it lasted for 4 years and the north was victorious and the
slaves were free, this is a turning point because this changed how the country
was going to live on.
9/11
was a turning point in history for many reasons. First of all, it changed the
way we all see each other. We look at strangers and are scared, thinking they
could be a possible threat to us and our country. People walk through the
streets scared, not knowing what’s going to happen. 9/11 left us living in fear of everything and
everyone. Also, security is much more strict everywhere. Before 9/11 you could
walk onto a plane without going through metal detectors, taking off your shoes,
and putting everything in a bin to be checked and x-rayed. People were trusted
not to bring guns or anything harmful on the planes, which is how the
terrorists were able to pull off what they did. Patriotism has changed in
America because of 9/11. Most Americans had some patriotism, but since 9/11 it
has become much more important to people. It has changed all of our lives in
many different ways; from losing family members to security at airports. 9/11
was definitely changed a lot of lives, and was a huge turning point.
Both the Civil War and 9/11 attacks were the biggest turning
points in American history because these two events have the biggest impacts in
our lives and how we go about our days .Without the Civil War and 9/11 our
lives would be drastically different. The Civil War lead to the civil rights
movement and the fight for equality for everyone.9/11 lead to the war on terror
and the beef up in our security systems. But 9/11 also set us back as a country
because nobody trusts each other anymore and it kind of sucks because we can’t
move on as a country without trust. These
are the reasons why 9/11 and the Civil War are such big turning points in our
history.
