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Moments in American History

By HalieLohse

  • Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott Decision
    Decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that people who were of African decent brouth into the U.S. and were held as slaves were not U.S. citizen so therefore they weren't protected by the Constitution

  • Lincoln Assassination

    Lincoln Assassination
    Lincoln was the first US president to be assassinated. He was killed by John Wilkes Booth. He shot Lincoln in the head while at a play.

  • McCarthy Hearings

    McCarthy Hearings
    Hearings held by U.S. Senate's Subcommittee. April 1954 to June 1954. Investigating conflicting accusations between the U.S. Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education
    US Supreme Court case that declared state laws establishing seperate public schools for white and black stuents unconstitutional.

  • Gideon v. Wainwright

    Gideon v. Wainwright
    U.S. Supreme Court case that ruled that state courts under the 14th admendment have to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants who are unable to afford them

  • Civil Rights Act 1964

    Civil Rights Act 1964
    Outlawed major forms of discrimination; racial, ethnic, national and religous minorities, and woman. Ended unequal application of voter registraion and racial segregation in schools, workplace and public facilites

  • Watergate Affair

    Watergate Affair
    Five men broke into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate Complex for president Nixon to figure out the Democrats election campaign plans.

  • Reagan's "Tear Down this Wall" Speech

    Reagan's "Tear Down this Wall" Speech
    Challenge issued by President Ronald Reagan to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall as an emblem of Gorbachev's desire to increase freedom.

  • Impeachment of Bill Clinton

    Impeachment of Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives on two charges. One of perjury and the other for obstruction of justice. He was not convicted at his impeachment trial as the President of the United States but he was acquitted by the Senate in February 1999

  • September 11 attacks

    September 11 attacks
    On September 11, 2001 19 terroists from al-Qaeda hijacked 4 passenger jets. Two of the four jets crashed into Tower 1 and Tower 2 of the World Trade Center, one of the jets crashed into the Pentagon in Washington D.C. and the other jet landed in a field somewehre in Pennsylvania. http://timeline.national911memorial.org/