Our Country And The Affect of Changes Change, for the better, or for the worst. Generally, when I change it's for the better, yet the whole world doesn't think like me. In the American Heritage Dictionary, (which should be even more precise, since the subject at hand is U.S. History) it is stated that change is: to be or cause to be different, alter (p116). There are an endless number of examples in our nation's narrative that are directly associated with change I had trouble choosing three. Even between the time frame we are given to write about. So I did a lot of reasoning and finally gathered one example in each