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Dred Scott Decision
decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that stated slaves or african americans were not citizens. -
Lincoln Assassination
The assassination of United States President Abraham Lincoln took place on Good Friday,[1] April 14, 1865, as the American Civil War was drawing to a close. The assassination occurred five days after the commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, General Robert E. Lee, surrendered to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and the Union Army of the Potomac. Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated,[2] though an unsuccessful attempt had been made on Andrew Jackson thir -
McCarthy Hearings
series of hearings between april 1954 and june 1954. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
was a landmark case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. -
Civil Rights Act of 1965
Banned discrimination against and gave African Americans the right to vote. -
Watergate Scandal
political scandal that caused Nixon to resign from office. -
Reagans "Tear Down this Wall" Speech
Challenge from ronald reagan so Soviet unions leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall -
Clinton Impeachment
was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice -
9/11/01
The September 11 attacks (also referred to as September 11, September 11th, or 9/11)[nb 1] were a series of four coordinated suicide attacks upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. areas on September 11, 2001. On that Tuesday morning, 19 terrorists from the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets. The hijackers intentionally flew two of those planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, into the North and South towers of the W -
Health and Affordability Act
law passed by barrack obama in order to amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.