{"id":1014,"date":"2023-07-20T18:54:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T18:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315l-external\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2023-07-20T18:54:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T18:54:07","slug":"the-twenty-first-century-activity-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315l-external\/the-twenty-first-century-activity-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Twenty-First Century: Activity 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\" style=\"min-height:226px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#bf5700\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1158\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-1015\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315l-external\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/07\/module-15-scaled.jpeg\" style=\"object-position:50% 0%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"50% 0%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315l-external\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/07\/module-15-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315l-external\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/07\/module-15-300x136.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315l-external\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/07\/module-15-1024x463.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315l-external\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/07\/module-15-768x347.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315l-external\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/07\/module-15-1536x695.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315l-external\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/07\/module-15-2048x927.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-x-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Overview: The Twenty-First Century<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"360\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 640 \/ 360;\" width=\"640\" controls src=\"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315l-external\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/07\/his315l_21st-C-Final.mp4\"><track src=\"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315l-external\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/07\/his315l_21st-C-Final.vtt\" srclang=\"English\" \/><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color\" style=\"color:#bf5700\">Overview<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Events since 2000 underscore the utter unpredictability of the future. It seems doubtful that anyone at the dawn of the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century would have guessed that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Terrorist attacks would kill nearly 3,000 Americans.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The United States would become embroiled in wars in the Middle East that were the longest in American history.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In two of the first four presidential elections of the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century, a candidate would lose the popular vote but capture enough states to win the electoral vote.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The United States would elect its first African American president.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Supreme Court would legalize same-sex marriage.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The United States would experience its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Income inequality, stagnating real incomes, and deepening educational and class divides would deeply polarize American politics and produce bitter conflicts over immigration, policing, voting rights, taxation, transgender rights, and a host of other issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Events since 2000 underscore the utter unpredictability of the future. 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