SamanthaSchurig

By sschurig

  • Lincoln Assassination

    Lincoln Assassination
    The assassination of President Lincoln happened on April 15, 1865 by John Wilkes Booth at Ford Theater. He was shot while watching a play with wife Mary Todd Lincoln, just days after the American Civil War came to an end

  • Social Security

    Social Security
    In 1934, FDR met with congress to say he wanted to put social security into Act, and in August of 1935 it was put into act. It was designed to pay senior citizens annual income when they retired

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Brown vs. Board of Education
    Held in Topeka, Kansas. Brown v. Board reversed Plessy vs. Ferguson, and allowed for non-segregated schools

  • Medicare

    Medicare
    Gives health insurance to senior citizens and kids with disabilities. today it provides health insurance for over 43 million elderly and disabled

  • Civil Rights Act 1965

    Civil Rights Act 1965
    Act passed by Congress to ensure the voting rights for African Americans.

  • Medicaid

    Medicaid
    It was created to help people who cannot afford health care because of low income, be able to have health care covered for.

  • Watergate Affair

    Watergate Affair
    A security guard a the Watergate hotel discovered a tape that led to the National Democratic Headquarters, which was a plan by Nixon and his party to make the reputation of Democrats a bad one, so that he could win the presidency. After it was discovered, Nixon tried to cover it up

  • Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" Speech

    Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" Speech
    Speech given by President Ronald Reagan to the Soviet Union, to persuade Mr. Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin wall, and it worked.

  • Clinton Impeachment

    Clinton Impeachment
    President Clinton had an affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. The affair was discovered. Clinton was impeached for lying to courts under oath about his affair with Lewinsky. he had also admitted to sexually harassing a women when he was governor, which he had previously denied. He was the second president in history to be impeached.

  • 9/11/01

    9/11/01
    On September 11, 2001 the twin towers in NYC terrorists were hit by two planes associated with Islamic terrorists. A third plane hit the Pentagon, and the fourth was attempted to hit the White House, but ended up hitting a field in Pennsylvania.