Address. This generation of Americans has been tested by crises that steeled our resolve and proved our resilience. A decade of
war is now ending. An economic recovery has begun. America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it -- so long as we seize it together. What is President Obama’s purpose in this section of the speech?
. The colonists were angry over the Townshend Acts, which led to riots. It was important because it was a turning point in America's quest for independence.
