The First Amendment

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  • Congress passed the Espionage Act

    Congress passed the Espionage Act
    Congress passed this act to make it a crime to refuse what they told you to do in the military
  • Scopes Monkey Trial

    Scopes Monkey Trial
    This was a court case that was fundamentalism vs Creationism
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt pardons

    Franklin D. Roosevelt pardons
    President Franklin D. Roosevelt those convicted under the Espionage and Sedition acts
  • Three states ratify the Bill of Rights

    Three states ratify the Bill of Rights
    Georgia, Connecticut, and Massachusetts finally ratify the bill of rights
  • National Broadcasting Co. v. United States

    National Broadcasting Co. v. United States
    The U.S. Supreme Court makes sure that nobody could monopolize a radio frequency.
  • West Virginia State board of Education v. Barnette

    West Virginia State board of Education v. Barnette
    U.S. Supreme Court makes it unconstitutional to have to salute the flag
  • Young v. American Mini Theatres

    Young v. American Mini Theatres
    An adult movie theatre within 100 feet of any two other "regulated uses," does not violate the First Amendment
  • NSPA v. Skokie

    NSPA v. Skokie
    This made is so a neo-Nazi group (the National Socialist Party of America) can march through Skokie Ill., is was a community inhabited by a number of Holocaust survivors.
  • New York v. Ferber

    New York v. Ferber
    Makes Child pornography not protected by the First Amendment
  • Bethel School District v. Fraser

    Bethel School District v. Fraser
    This case curtailed the protections established in the Tinker case. This case was free speech in schools.
  • Flag Protection Act

    Flag Protection Act
    The act punishes people that intentionally harms the U.S. Flag in any way
  • Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association

    Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association
    The U.S. Supreme Court made Video Games a form of speech protected under the First Amendment