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Americans with Disabilities Act
This act was passed with the objective to try to bring equal opportunity to people who have disabilities. The bill says that it is illegal to discriminate against any person with a disability when considering, job applications, hiring, promotions or firing, or training of employees. The act was signed into effect by the president at the time, George H. W. Bush. The act gave equal opportunity to people with disabilities in the workplace, transportation, and with commercial services. -
Confirmation of Clarence Thomas to the US Supreme Court
Clarence Thomas was nominated by George H. W. Bush to be one of the supreme court justices in 1991. Clarence was a person that some belived was up to no good, during the nomination hearings, there were accusations towards Clarence about sexual assault towards a woman who had worked under him when he worked in education . Eventually, Clarence was voted to be a justice through the thin margin of 52-48. People also thought that hsi views on abortion were bad. -
Passage of North American Free Trade Agreement
The passage of North American Free Trade Agreement involved people the Mrime Minister of Canada, the President of Mexico and the President of the United States of America. These 3 had a meeting asn then wanted to create a trilatteral trdae bloc. The goal was to eliminate terrifs on exports from mexico to the United States. It is to blame for sending 700,00 manfuracturing jobs to mexico. But still 95 percetn of the population supported it. -
The Million Man March
This march was held by a local sort of NAACP in order to bring to attention the fact that black communities in the country weren't being self proficient. The idea being that the NAACP could get the African American male population to band together to create an African American community that would protect and rid each other of the economic and social problems that were plaguing the country at the time. -
Unabomber attacks and arrests
The unibomber was a man named Theodore John Ted Kaczynski. He was responsible for the bombings that happened between 1978 and 1995 where 3 people were killed and 23 were injured during all of his bombings. His goal was to bring awareness to the fact that people weren't self-sufficient enough anymore. In 1996, he sent a letter to the Washington post and the New York proficient promising to desist from terrorism, leading to his arrest on the 3rd of April. -
Olympic Park Bombing
During the 1996 Olympic games, a man (Eric Robert Rudolph) detonated a bomb in the park attempting to kill spectators attending a concert. He placed a bomb under a bench nearby a sound pillar. The bomb was comprised of three large pipe bombs that would go off with nails around the pipes, this caused most of the injuries. Interestingly, the security guard who found the bomb (Richard Jewell) was wrongly accused, but was later freed from the charges. -
Black Hawk Down!
Americans were first sent to Yugoslavia in February of 1998 to deal with the Kosovo war that was being fought in Yugoslavia. On the 9th of June in 1998 President Bill Clinton declared a national state of emergency. Black hawk down refers to the mission that was supposed to last an hour to capture two higher ups in the persecution army. And it ended up being a block buster of a movie. -
Columbine
At 11:19 am, two senior students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, open fired in Columbine high school. The two had been planning this for months, they had even planted bombs in the school and to the N and S. Though on April 20th, they ended up killing 12 students and one teacher at the school, then at 12:08 am, the two both committed suicide at the same time. This event sparked controversy over gun laws and antidepressant use in teens. It was a devastating event that people reminder to this day -
NATO Bombings in Yugoslavia
This was a series of bombings in Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia had moved troops into a city where a UN peacekeeping mission recently started. The bombings started on March 24th of 1999, but didn't end until June 10th 1999. When the request was vetoed by Russia, NATO started bombing anyway. During the bombings, roughly 489 to 528 civilians were killed. -
Y2K Scare
Y2K, meaning for year two thousand, was the scare that when the clock hit midnight on January first 2000, that all of the computers in the world might crash all at once. Planes would fall from the sky, all computers wouldn't work, and we'd be back in the stone age. Though this never happened, not nearly as dramatically as thought. There were a few bugs when getting the date from computers, but the whole world's computers didn't fail. People were essentially preparing for the world to be over
