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Dred Scott Decision
Scott was a slave who was taken out of slave territory when his master moved to Illinoise and then to Fort Snelling, in present-day Minnesorta, During the 1830. Scott sued for his freedom and Cheif justice stated that slaves are not citizen and did not have the right to sue in federal court. and were concidered property -
Lincon Assassination
John Wilkes Booth was identified as the person who shot Lincon in the Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. President Lincon was shot in the back of the head. John Wilkes Booth with a pistol walked into the president booth and shot Abe -
McCarthy Hearings
His Attack on the U.S. Army in the fall of 1953 led to the first televiseds hearings in U.S. history, the Army-McCarthy Hearings of 1954. The hearing was aired for 188 hours of brodcast time in front of 22 million viewers -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education was the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case that declared that it was illeagal to have segregation in the publich school sysem under the 14th amenendment Equal protection Clause -
Gideon v. Wainwright
Gideon was charge with breaking and entering, He was denied his request for an atourny to represent him. when he was in prision he petition the Supreme Court to over turn his convinction. in the end it worked in his favor and now the law is changed to where you are presented with an atourny for yourself -
Civil Rights Act 1965
President Johnson announced to a joint session of Congress that he would bring them an effective voting rights bill.On August 6, 1965, President Johnson signed into law the Voting Rights Act, hailed by many as the most effective civil rights law ever. -
Watergate Affair
several burglars were arrested inside the office of the Democratic National Committee located in the Watergate building in Washington, D.C. The burglars were connected to President Richard Nixon’s reelection campaign, and they had been caught while attempting to wiretap phones and steal secret documents. Nixion took steps to cover his tracts afterwards, trying to stop the Federal Bureau from investaing -
Clinton Impeachment
President Clinton was Impeached on the grounds of perjury, obstruction of justice, witness-tampering, and abuse of power, and also provided explicit details of the sexual relationship between the president and Ms. Lewinsky. -
9/11
On September 11, 2001 four jetliners, the Pentagon, and The Twin Towers were struck in a complex and coordinated military operation involving a series of individual assaults.
