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The past five years have been full of drastic changes for America from across the board. Domestic social issues have dominated the news, especially the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Obama's battle for health-care reform, illegal immigration, the struggle for gay rights, and religious power struggles, the last half of the decade will surely be ex tremely influential in our near future. This chapter in this online text-book presents a large overview of five significant domestic happenings in America and how they have changed our country--for better or worse.