American History: Events that Have Affected Our Past and Our Present

In American history there have been many events or issues that have affected our past and our present. For example slavery an issue that affected American government, religion, and modern equal rights. Slavery led to a civil war that divided the nation into two sides, dividing the government. Religion was also affected by this issue because it challenge the idea that if people believed in gods teaching then they had to believe the slavery was wrong because god teaches that every human being is equal and there people who were very religious and believed that slavery was okay. Lastly, the issue of slavery affected the present by leading to the emancipation proclamation which led the America becoming a country of equal rights and equal opportunity. There has been one issue of that has affected the U.S.A as much as the issue of slavery did at the beginning of the nation. There has been an issue that has affected the history of the United States past and present, birth control has affected the government, religion and the modern women. The government has been affected by the issue of birth control.in 1973 the case of Roe vs. Wade was taken to Supreme Court this case was about women’s birth control right and their right to choose abortion. Jane roe was pregnant single women that challenged the constitutionality of the Texas abortion laws which made it illegal for women to abort and took her case to the Supreme Court .Dividing the nation in two sides those who believed abortion should be legal and those who didn’t. In this case the Supreme Court rule that abortion was legal and that a fetus was ‘’potential life ‘’ and that it did not have constitutional rights. The state should only regulate abortion to protect the mother’s life. The court also ruled that in the third trimester the state could regulate abortion to Protect the fetus except when the mother’s life or health is in danger. Many American politicians did not agree with