The Alternative for the Americas agreement of the early 2000's is primarily aimed at "making the process of hemispheric economic integration more inclusive, democratic, environmentally and culturally sustainable, and equitable." The agreement was set up in response to the NAFTA, which then was supposed to become the Free Trade Area of the Americas.
A terrorist attack on the US. Planes were crashed into the Twin Towers in New York.
The Battle of Fort Sumter<span> was the first </span>battle<span> of the American Civil </span>War<span>. The intense Confederate artillery bombardment of Major Robert Anderson's small Union garrison in the unfinished </span>fort<span> in the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, had been preceded by months of siege-like conditions.</span>
