How Did 9/11 Change American History

September 11th, 2001 is a day that everyone in American history knows. It is observed annual in schools and other federal buildings, and anyone alive and aware of their surroundings on that day could tell you exactly where they were and what they were doing when they received the news of the treacherous event. A terrorist attack where two passenger planes were hijacked to crash into the twin towers would change American history forever. Not only would this change the lives of the individual citizens, who were now becoming more patriotic, but foreign and domestic policies would change the way trade and business was conducted in the world as well.
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When suspicious people were assumed to be boarding planes, only their luggage was checked, as seen specifically with one of the hijackers in the 9/11 crisis(9/11 Commission Report, 1). The law enforcement and intelligence agencies were actually restricted by law in the amount of information they could share with each other in order to honor the ‘civil liberties’ of the citizens (Friedman, 15). The Patriot Act which was passed in order to ‘preserve the life and liberty of citizens’ had many features concerning how terrorists could now be handled by the government. Now, increased surveillance was allowed and encouraged, assumed terrorists no longer had the right to know they were being investigated, and court orders to obtain business records when concerning national security could be issued as well(Ball, 37). Search warrants can be immediately issued to law enforcement when terrorist-activity as assumed, and hackers can be monitored immediately once a victim reports it to the authorities. Lastly, new harsh punishments were published to ward off perspective terrorists and increase security among the citizens, some of which have been issued as sexual torture and stress matrices (Head,