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Question: What's the most defining part of American history?
#1
the pre-constitution Confederation
 
#2
Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction efforts
 
#3
Westward Expansion and the Indian Wars (and Mexican-American War)
 
#4
Gilded Age
 
#5
Progressive Era
 
#6
Imperialism in the early 20th century (including conquest of the Phillipines and Hawaii)
 
#7
Roaring Twenties
 
#8
Great Depression
 
#9
New Deal
 
#10
World War II
 
#11
Great Society
 
#12
Civil Rights movement
 
#13
Space Race
 
#14
Cold War (including Korean War and Vietnam War)
 
#15
Clean Water and Clean Air Acts
 
#16
9/11/01 and the War on Terror (and the Iraq War)
 
#17
Financial Crash in 2008 and the Great Recession
 
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Total Voters: 63

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ScottieF
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« on: November 11, 2015, 11:56:28 PM »

Tossup between the Civil War and WWII - the former because it was really a second revolution in many respects that fundamentally reshaped the nation, and the latter because our victory in it both propelled the United States to global hegemony and will probably be remembered in the annals of world history as our greatest achievement.

I'll add that the ~20 years after WWII can probably be pointed to as our peak, however.
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