In this tour we’ll see the election of our first African-American President, Barak Obama. We’ll study the continued polarization as exemplified by Republican legislators who would refuse to work with the administration, as well as movements such as the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street movement. We’ll finally get a healthcare plan, and it is also here that we will see Putin’s first attempts to move into Ukraine.

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