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Dred Scott Decision
During this time the Supreme Court declared all blacks, slaves as well were never to become citizens of the United States of America. Dred Scott was a slave living in the free state, Illinois and Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state Missouri. He had hoped to regain his freedom but the court stated he had no right to sue because he was African American. -
Abraham Lincoln's Assassination
Lincoln Assassination
On April 14, 1865 a man by the name of John Wilkes Booth shot and killed Abraham Lincoln. The search for Booth was one of the largest manhunts in history. The news of Lincolns death spread quickly and people were in shock leaving many businesses closed and the flags across the country flew half-mast. -
McCarthy Hearings
Republican senator, Joseph McCarthy conducted an investigation of the Army Signal Corps. The army made a report saying that McCarthy and his aid, Roy Cohn had pressured the army in giving G. David Schine favored treatment who was McCarthy's former aid. -
Brown v. Board of Education
During this time, segregation was in action. Blacks and whites were not to be together in schools. This lawsuit was for a man named Oliver Brown who had to walk miles just to get to her "African American" school when a "all white" school was just around the street. Brown filed a lawsuit to end this and many other African Americans were all for it. -
Gideon v. Wainwright
This case required all states to provide a defense attorney to criminal defendents charged with serious offenses and cant afford lawyers for themselves. -
JFK Assassination
On this day, President JFK was riding in a motorcade in Dallas around 12:30 pm and was shot by somebody in the crowd. The name of that guy was Lee Harvey Oswald. Kennedy was taken to a hospital but he couldnt be saved. Many theories are out there saying how they think it exactlyhappened but everyone thinks something different. The shooting of JFK was caught on video and is shown throughout the world today, making it a historical time in history. -
Watergate Scandal
The word "watergate" describes a web of political scandals between the years 1972 and 1974 and refers to the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C. In this hotel, Watergate burglars broke into the Democratic Party's National Committee office. President Nixon at the time had made three speeches on the Watergate scandal. -
"Tear Down this Wall"
In April of 1987, Ronald Reagan was assigned to write a speech at the Berlin wall. -
Clinton Impeachment
The House of Representatives approves impeachment against President Bill Clinton with lying under oath to a federal grand jury. With being the second president to be impeached he vowed to finish his term. But in November 1995 Clinton had begun an affair with a lady named Monica Lewinsky, a 21 year old intern. A lady named Paula Jones sued the president for sexual harrassment. -
09/11/01
On the morning of September 11, 2001 two planes struck the World Trade Center in New York City. With over 3,000 people killed, this changed the United States forever. 343 of these people were firefighters who lost there lives that day. Now people live with fear of entering airplanes and our security for airplanes has increased.
