How did 9/11 Impact the United States?

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by Katherine VandeWyngearde0 views·Updated Jun 3, 2022
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  1. 9 11 impacted the United States in many ways.
  2. How may you ask
  3. there are going to be three ways that I will be discussing.
  4. The 1st 1
  5. is culture
  6. Before 9 11.
  7. There were no security in airports whatsoever
  8. meaning absolutely anyone could jump to the gate
  9. just minutes before boarding the plane.
  10. This is very different from today where you have to show up hours before in
  11. order to make it through the long lines of security for yourself and your luggage.
  12. There was a new path act passed on October 26, 2001 which is called the Patriot Act.
  13. This changed the culture because it allowed for the increase in government
  14. surveillance and its abilities to use
  15. detective tools for protection of terrorism.
  16. It was signed in hopes that there would be nothing
  17. remotely close to 9-11 reoccurring in the United States.
  18. But this did cause him uncertainty and the citizens because
  19. they did not like the idea that it basically granted the
  20. government the ability for them to obtain a larger amount of
  21. data and decrease the difficulty for them to do so.
  22. So as you can see on the picture of the right people
  23. are protesting against this and on the bottom picture it says,
  24. I watch you which is representing the government.
  25. The patriot act has been edited throughout the years.
  26. They just want something set in place as fast as they could.
  27. The second way it was politically,
  28. it has created unity and patriotism more than ever before
  29. in the picture to the left.
  30. It shows military men hanging up a large flag on the side of the pentagon.
  31. It was showing more than just a flag though, but a symbol of patriotism,
  32. reassurance and a reminder for the people of the United
  33. States that we will stand strong for our country.
  34. No matter what difficulties we face.
  35. George W. Bush was the president through this whole time
  36. and gave a speech to the nation,
  37. giving them an explanation to why we are going to fight back
  38. in the global war on terror,
  39. which was a war between those who supported the terrorism and the
  40. people in government who were supporting the people who had been attacked against
  41. George W.
  42. Bush was re elected in the election of 2004 because the citizens of the
  43. United States recognized all that he did for the country in the prior years.
  44. The third impact was a huge increase in islamaphobia.
  45. As you can see in the chart below,
  46. there were little to no anti muslim hate crimes up until the year 2000
  47. Once 9 11 occurred, which was in 2001
  48. is spiked more than ever before.
  49. It went from less than 52 near 500 and less than a year.
  50. They have decreased since then, but are still higher than they ever were before.
  51. 9 11.
  52. Now,
  53. Where did 9 11 happen?
  54. Well, 9 11 happened in four different places,
  55. but if that did not only the United States, but the whole world
  56. one plane hit the North Tower of the World Trade
  57. Center and the other plane hit the South tower,
  58. it was now obvious what was going on.
  59. The United States was under attack.
  60. The next plane flew into the pentagon
  61. in Arlington Virginia. Only an hour after the first plane hit the North Tower.
  62. By this time, there was another plane that had taken off in New Jersey,
  63. but the passengers were aware of what could happen
  64. at any moment because they have seen news reports.
  65. The people who were aboard the plane fought the hijackers and
  66. ended up flying into a field in pennsylvania around 10 10 am
  67. unfortunately killing everyone on board,
  68. but not any more monumental buildings.
  69. As you can see to the right are satellite
  70. images of the World Trade Center and the pentagon.
  71. Now
  72. we're going to discuss more about 9:11 in general.
  73. Al Qaeda was a group that caused this disaster.
  74. There were 19 of the people from this Islamic extremist group
  75. that planned a terrorist attack on the United States.
  76. The leader of this group was o zaman bin laden.
  77. Okay, now take a guess of how many people died in 9 11,
  78. The correct answer is
  79. 2,996 people were killed. More than 6000 people were injured.
  80. Now
  81. take a guess on how many people were in the Twin towers?
  82. About 17,000 people.
  83. This means that the first responders did a great job