History in My Lifetime: A New Century Begins

The Election Between Al Gore and George W. Bush was a close election. Gore had won the Popular vote, but Bush was in the lead with Electoral votes. It came down to Florida, because all of there ballets were skewed in the whole voting process. Florida finally revoted and it turns out Bush had won.

An act of Terrorism was commited on 9/11/01 when the religious terrorist group known as the Al Qaeda hijacked 4 american planes and crashed them into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.
The Fourth plane was courageously re-taken over by the passengers and Flown into a field in Pennsylvania.

Bush set out a tax cut of about 1.35 Trillion Dollars. It was supposed to last 10 years. His plan was to lower taxes and in return people would spend more; Hoping it would create more jobs. Overall Rich people got most of the Cut because in theory they have more money to spend.

Tests given to children grades 3-8 to see if our schools were up to par. If your school met requirements you were given a bonus. If not your school was given less money.

President Bush ran for re-election against John Karry. Overall, Bush won again because we had just gone to war in Iraq.

The Economic Stimulus Package spent $789 Billion, hoping to create jobs and boost the economy. It just added more onto our nation's growing deficit.

Barrack Obama and John McCain ran for presidency. It was a close election and Obama ended up winning in the end. This was a precedent because he was our nation's first African American president

Obama prevented banks from giving out unreasonable loans. This at least reduced number of banks that had gone bankrupt.

The Health Care Reform known as "Obama Care" required all citizens to have Health Insurance

Obama started taking our troops out of Iraq.