Modern Era US History

U.S. Music and sports adopted worldwide is known as

• Culture Diffusion

• Environment

• Voting rights Act

• Assimilation

Provides easy access to information and resulted in increased manufacturing efficiency

• Computers and Internet

• Telephone

• TV

• Radio

Why was the 2008 presidential election significant?

• Bush won the popular vote

• Al Gore won

• 1st Mexican American elected

• Obama elected as 1st African American president

New Orleans flooded as a result of its low elevation and the failure of it's levees

• Hurricane Dolly

• Hurricane Ike

• Hurricane Mike

• Hurricane Katrina

Passed to prevent future acts of terrorism; complaints that right to privacy was ignored

• Homestead Act

• Walker Act

• Patriot Act

• 9/11

Attack on the World Trade Center; resulted in the U.S. War on Terror

• 7/11

• 7/4

• 9/11

• 11/15

Supreme Court ended recount in Florida; Bush wins

• 2000 Presidential Election

• 2008 Presidential Election

• 2004 Presidential Election

• 2016 Presidential Election

Developed software for personal computers

• Bill Clinton

• Bill Gates

• Bill Swayze

• Phil Gates

Create new products and ideas that change daily life and culture

• Accords

• Black Panthers

• Entrepreneurs

• Hustlers

Removed trade barriers, increased competition, decreased product prices

• LULAC

• NAFFY

• NAFTA

• NATO