The Patriot Act

2001, A Year to Remember and A Year to Learn From 2001, is a year that is commonly known for the events that occured on September 11. That day will be remembered as one of the United States most important days in the history of America. Although that day had had a major impact on society, many other interesting and important things came from that year that made an infulence on society as we know today. January 20 2001, George W. Bush was sworn in to office, about nine months later he would be facing one of the country's most horrific terriost attacks. For those who are unfamiliar with September 11 2001, this day was when the United States faced multiple terriost attacks. In New York City, the World Trade Center's Twin Towers were attacked, …show more content…
Bush created the law known as the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act is another tool used to prevent terriost attacks. This law basically gives the United States government the right to view private information. This law was and is a very controversial topic, but this law has prevented many terriost attacks. Aside from the new laws that were established after Septemeber 11, there were many innovations to society. The first Hybrid car was invented. A Hybrid car is a type of car that allows a person to use other sources of energy as fuel not only gas. The invention of this type of car led to the different types of advancements in the types of cars that are made today. The first camra phone and Ipod were invented in 2001 (Wikipedia). Before the camera phone was invented many people carried around seperate devices to do individual things. When these devices were made, it inspired new ideas to make all of these seperate devices in to one device. Today phones have all kinds of amazing features such as a camera, a music player, radio, games, and …show more content…
In baseball, the Eastern division champions for the American League were the New York Yankees and the National League were the Atlanta Braves. The Central division champions for the American League were the Cleveland Indians, and the National League were Houston Astros. The Western division champions for the American League were Seattle Mariners, and the National League were the Arizonia Diamondbacks. In basketball, the mens teams faced off and the Los Angeles Lakers cameout successful in the championship. As for the womens teams the winners of the championship were the Los Angeles Sparks. There are a few other interesting facts about 2001. In January of 2001 in El Salvador there was a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that caused about eight hundred people to die, then in February a 6.6 magnitude earthquake happened killing about four hundred people. On August 24, WIndows XP was launched by Microsoft. On October 7, the war on Afghanistan began and is still currently going on. Sokolowski