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Why Do We Establish The Constitution For The United States Of America?

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“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect
Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the
United States of America.”
When defining United States History we commonly think of past significant events that have shaped the course of the future. It is through these events that our nation has worked hard to overcome struggles for justice and freedom and security. From 1865 to the present our nation has proved to be extremely vigorous and capable of overcoming challenges through race, gender, social movements, economical transformations, …show more content…

These helped everyone from farmers to war veterans

and people just out of work. But it was not until the onset of World War II that the Great

Depression ended.

The wars that have taken place throughout history have proven our allegiance to

our nation and showed that we do everything possible to ensure the safety and protection

of our country. The Civil War was the war that determined the kind of nation we are. The

war resolved two fundamental questions left pending by the revolution: whether the

United States was to be a confederation of sovereign states or a united nation with a

higher power national government, and whether the nation, born of natural rights that all

men were created with an equal right to freedom, would continue practicing slavery. By

the spring of 1865, the confederated surrendered and slavery had been abolished. The

first global conflict the world experienced, the “Great War,” also known as World War I

put in opposition the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman

Empire against the Allied forces of Great Britain, the United States, France, Russia, Italy

and Japan. The advantages of the war included more freedom for women, the

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