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Dred Scott Decision
In the spring of March 1857, The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before. moving back to the slave state of Missouri, had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom. -
Lincolns Assassination
Abraham Lincoln’s killer, John Wilkes Booth, was a Maryland native born in 1838 who remained in the North during the Civil War despite his Confederate sympathies. As the conflict entered its final stages, he and several -
Reagans "Tear Down this Wall'' Speech
About twenty years ago, on the morning of June 12, 1987, Reagan arrived in Berlin, on the occasion of the city's 750th birthday. He was supposed to speak on the Western side of the Brandenburg Gate, for years the city's symbolic division line between democracy and communism during the Cold War. -
Gideon v, Wainwright
Clarence Earl Gideon was charged with breaking and entering into a pool hall in Panama City, Florida and stealing money from the halls vending machine. -
Medicad
Medicaid was established in 1965 as a joint federal/state program to provide medical coverage to the needy. States administer the program and, within federal guidelines, establish their own eligibility standards, types and levels of services, and rates of payment. -
Medicare
the first health insurance bill was introduced in Congress, to 1965, when Medicare was passed, a whole generation of Americans acted and reacted to the various proposals.medicare was something good for everyone who couldnt afford it. most people couldnt afford insurance so medicare was a big plus. -
WaterGate Affair 1972
Before the summer of 1972, the word "Watergate" meant nothing more than an office and luxurious apartment complex in Washington, D.C. As a result of a "third-rate burglary" on June 17 of that year. President Richard Nixon got resigned. -
Clinton Impeachment
Clinton began an affair with Monica Lewinsky, a 21-year-old unpaid intern. Over the course of a year and a half, the president and Lewinsky had nearly a dozen sexual encounters in the White House.
