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Dred Scott Decision
In March of 1857, the United States Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, declared that all blacks, slaves as well as free, were not and could never become citizens of the United States. -
Lincoln Assassination
On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. -
McCarthy Hearings
Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy's attack on the U.S. Army in the fall of 1953 led to the first televised hearings in U.S. history, the Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954. www.u-s-history.com -
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown vs. Board of Education ended legal segregation in public schools. The case was ruled a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. -
Gideon v. Wainwright
In the Gideon v. Wainwright case, the Supreme Court ruled that state courts are required under the 14th amendment to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants who are unable to afford to pay their own attorneys. -
Medicare
Medicare is a national social insurance program administered by the U.S. federal government that guarantees access t o health insurance for Americans ages 65 and older and younger people with disabilities as well as people with end stage renal disease. -
Civil Rights Act
President Johnson issued a call for a strong voting rights law and hearings began soon after an attach by a state trooper on an African-American on the bill that would become the Voting Rights Act. -
Reagan's "Tear Down this Wall" Speech
The tear down this wall speech was the challenge issued by United States President Ronald Reagan to Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall which had been separating East Germany from West Germany. -
Clinton Impeachment
After nearly 14 hours of debate, the House of Representatives approves two articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, charging him with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice. -
9/11/01
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 World Trade Center complex in New York City; both towers callapsed within two hours.
