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Decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that people who were of African decent brouth into the U.S. and were held as slaves were not U.S. citizen so therefore they weren't protected by the Constitution
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Lincoln was the first US president to be assassinated. He was killed by John Wilkes Booth. He shot Lincoln in the head while at a play.
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Hearings held by U.S. Senate's Subcommittee. April 1954 to June 1954. Investigating conflicting accusations between the U.S. Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy
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US Supreme Court case that declared state laws establishing seperate public schools for white and black stuents unconstitutional.
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U.S. Supreme Court case that ruled that state courts under the 14th admendment have to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants who are unable to afford them
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Outlawed major forms of discrimination; racial, ethnic, national and religous minorities, and woman. Ended unequal application of voter registraion and racial segregation in schools, workplace and public facilites
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Five men broke into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate Complex for president Nixon to figure out the Democrats election campaign plans.
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Challenge issued by President Ronald Reagan to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall as an emblem of Gorbachev's desire to increase freedom.
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Bill Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives on two charges. One of perjury and the other for obstruction of justice. He was not convicted at his impeachment trial as the President of the United States but he was acquitted by the Senate in February 1999
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On September 11, 2001 19 terroists from al-Qaeda hijacked 4 passenger jets. Two of the four jets crashed into Tower 1 and Tower 2 of the World Trade Center, one of the jets crashed into the Pentagon in Washington D.C. and the other jet landed in a field somewehre in Pennsylvania. http://timeline.national911memorial.org/
