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Dred Scott Decision
A landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent brought into the United States and held as slaves were not protected by the Constitution and were not U.S. citizens. -
Licoln Assisination
Assassination Of President LincolnPresident Lincoln died because he was shot in the head while at the theatre with his wife. He served a total of 4 years in office. The assassin was named John Wilkes Booth -
McCarthy Hearings
McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations between April 1954 and June 1954. The hearings were held for the purpose of investigating conflicting accusations between the United States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Brown vs. BOE
Brown vs. BOEA landmark in national civil rights movement. The supreme court case that made seperation of schools unconstitutional. The movement that desegregated schools in america. Handed down on May 17, 1954, the Warren Court's unanimous (9–0) decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." -
Gideon vs. Wainright
In the case, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that state courts are required under the Fourteenth Amendment to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants who are unable to afford to pay their own attorneys, extending the identical requirement made on the federal government under the Sixth Amendment. -
Civil Rights Act 1965
The Voting Rights Act was signed in as a law by President Johnston on August 6. This was written due to the 15th Amendment not being able to be enforced by the goverment to keep discrimination out of voting. This Act prohibited the denial or abridgment of voting with literacy tests on a nationwide basis. -
Watergate Affair
Occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate hotel in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted hide all of its involvement. Led to Nixon resigning. -
Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" Speech.
"Tear down this wall!" was the challenge issued by United States President Ronald Reagan to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall, in a speech at the Brandenburg Gate near the Berlin Wall on June 12, 1987, commemorating the 750th anniversary of Berlin. -
Clinton Impeachment
Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives on two charges, one of perjury and one of obstruction of justice, on December 19, 1998. The charges came from the Lewinsky scandal and the Paula Jones lawsuit. -
September 11, 2001
A series of four coordinated suicide attacks upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. areas on September 11, 2001. These were an act of terrorism against the United States by Islamist militant group al-Qaeda.
