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A Day To Remember.... |
September 11, 2001
Within Bush's first year as the United States President, he faced Osama Bin Ladin's terrorist attack to the Twin Towers in New York City. Soon after the planes hit, President Bush was told of this tragedy while reading to a Kindergarden classroom at Booker Elementary School. Soon after flight 77 hit the pentagon and flight 93 was aimed to hit D.C but passengers fought to take control and crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennslyvannia. Nearly 3000 people died within this horific day.
Taliban Regime On September 14, he visted Ground Zero to meet Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Firefighters, and police officers who had risked their own lives for many innocent civilians. On September 20, George W. Bush had made a speech issuing an ultimatum to the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Bush spoke with the Taliban and notify them to turn in all terrorists allied with bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist group and to shut down all its training camps. On September 16, 2001, bin Laden broadcasted on a satellite channel refusing the responsibility of the attacks. |  |
 | Osama Bin Laden In 2004, Bin Laden shared a video with the U.S. stating the unpreparedness and neglectfulness of President Bush accusing him for the hijacking of the planes on September 11. Within the video Osama bin Laden finally took responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks to the World Trade Center. Bin Laden said watching the wreaking of towers in Lebanon near Israel during Lebanon War inspired him to attack to Twin Towers. |
The Authorization for Use of Military Force The Authorization for Use of Military Force is an agreement passed by the United States Congress in September of 2001, stating the use of armed forces in the United States against Al Queda, and the Taliban government. This awarded Bush the command to use all appropriate forces against all that helped in the September 11th attacks. |  |
No Child Left Behind Act
How It Began The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) is a United States Act of Congress that came about as wide public concern about the state of education. First proposed by the administration of George W. Bush immediately after he took office, the bill passed in the U.S. Congress with bipartisan support. NCLB is a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which included Title I, the government's flagship aid program for disadvantaged students. Results of NCLB
| Who is it for? The No Child Left Behind Act is for disadvantaged students. It is for the families that live in poverty and can not afford to send there kid to a pre-school. It is very common to see this in the innner city where there is not as much wealth. There is no cost for this service. It is 100% free. George Bush believed the idea of this would be fantastic because it would increase his popularity and it did winning him a second election in 2004. Problems with NCLB Critics have argued that the focus on standardized testing (all students in a state take the same test under the same conditions) as the means of assessment encourages teachers to teach a narrow subset of skills that the teacher believes will increase test performance, rather than focus on acquiring deep understanding of the full, broad curriculum. For example, if the teacher knows that all of the questions on a math test are simple addition problems, then the teacher might not invest any class time on the practical applications of addition so that there will be more time for the material which is assessed on the test.
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Presidential Election of 2004 In 2004 Bush ran for president for what would be his second term as the Unites States president. Running against him was Massachusetts Senator John Kerry. Within the election, Bush won 31 of 50 states, gathering a total of 286 electoral votes. Bush won the majority of the popular vote having 50.7% compared to Senetor John Kerry having 48.3% of the votes.
 | Bush vs. Kerry  John Kerry John Kerry a Senator from Iowa had won the Democratic nomination to run against George W. Bush in the 2004 Presidential election. On July 6, 2004,he chose Senator John Edwards from North Caralina as his running mate. On November 3, 2004, Kerry started winning the race, Kerry had carried on to win 59.03 million votes, or 48.3 percent of the popular vote. Towards the end, Kerry was carrying the number of states with a total of 252 electoral votes. In the final tally Kerry had 251 electoral votes and Bush had 286 electoral votes, which left Bush winning the capaigne.
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George W. Bush On March 10, 2004, Bush confirmed the number of delegates needed to be in the Republican National Convention in New York City in 2004. He then accepted the nomination on September 2, 2004. Bringing back Vice President Dick Cheney as his running mate. Bush stuck with two goals, defending the United States from Terrorism and creating an ownership society. The ownership society allowed people to invest their social security into the stock market making stock and home ownership increase. With that on November 2, 2004, George W. Bush had defeated John Kerry in the 55th quadrennial presidential election. |  |
 | Campaign Problems Bush's was trusted by Americans to be tough on terrorism while Kerry would be unsure to even face the danger. Bush also made everyone believe Kerry was a Massachusetts liberal. One of Kerrys slogans was Stronger at home, respected in the world. This slogan sugested that Kerry would pay more attention to domestic concerns. |
The Secure Fence Act Of 2004 On October 26, 2006 George W. Bush signed The Secure Fence Act Of 2006 making it a law. This law was aimed to help protect american people and make our U.S. boarders more secure. The U.S. wanted to move toward immigration reform. Most Republicans voted to support this act and most Democrats had voted against it. |  |
The Secure Fence Act's Goal The Secure Fence Act's Goal was to helpsecure America's boarder to block illegal immigration.
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