great consequence, that may affect a certain group of people to a

certain extent, or it may affect the majority of people in many different

ways. A momentous decision could also be an important decision

that affects the majority of the population during that certain time

period, or maybe affects the future populations to come.

Another point of view of a momentous decision is a once in a lifetime

event that happens, even if its in a fiction book. Examples of

momentous decisions vary greatly on topics and time periods. A few

examples are: the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan,

Huckleberry Finn's deciding he would rather go to Hell then betray his

friend Jim, Rosa Park's decision not to move to the back of the bus,

King Lear's decision to divide his land, the famous court trial; Roe vs.

Wade, the Dred Scott decision, Romeo and Juliet's decision to be a

couple, Solidarity's decision to resist the government of Poland, Aung

San Suu Kyi's decision to resist the government of Myanmar, Martin

Luther's decision to nail his Ninety-five Theses to the door of the

Wittenburg Cathedral, the decision of the New York Times to publish

slave, but that the main law ensuring that slavery would not enter the

awkward position, since it was bordered on three sides by free states.

War, constitution amendment or the Emancipation Proclamation that

represented by George W. Goode, a Virginia lawyer with a strong

New York, of illegally assaulting, holding, and imprisoning Dred Scot,

relationship between Northerners and Southerners.

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