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The 1990's
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Americans With Disabilities Act
This act was passed with intent to try to bring equal oportunity to people who have disabilities. The bill states that it is illegal to discriminate against any person with a disability when considering, job aplications, heiering, promotions or firing, or training of employees. The act was signed into effect by the presiddent at the time, George H. W. Bush. The act gaev equal opportunity to people with disabilities in the work place, transportation, and with commercial services. -
The Confirmation of Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas was nominated by George H. W. Bush to be one of the supreme court justices in 1991. Although Clarence was a very contrivercial person, during the nomination hearings, there were accusations towards Clarence about sexual assault towards a woman who had worked under him when he worked in education and then at the EEOC, though a lot of the controversy was over his conservative views on abortion. Eventually, Clarence was voted to be a justice through the thin margin of 52-48. -
NAFTA
NAFTA was the North American Free Trade Act of 1992. The act was signed by the three leaders of America, Canada, and Mexico at the time (George H. W. Bush, Brian Mluroney, and Carlos Salinas Gotari respectively.) The idea of the act was to limit the trade tarrifs and barriers that were between the US, Canada, and Mexico. Within ten years of the act being instated, more then 1/2 of all Mexico to US tarrifs and more than 1/3 of all US to Mexico tarrifs were removed. -
Million man march
This march was held by a local version of the NAACP in order to bring to attention the fact that black communities in the country weren't being self sufficient. The idea being that the NAACP could get the African American male population to band together to create an African American community that would protect and rid each other of the economic and social ills that were plaguing the country at the time. -
Unabomber attacks and arrests
The UNIBOMBER was a man named Theodore John "Ted" Kaczynski who was responsible for the bombings that occured between 1978 and 1995 where 3 people were killed and 23 were injured during the 17 years. His goal was to bring awareness to the fact that people weren't self-sufficiant enough anymore. In 1996, he sent a letter to the Washington post and the New York TImes promissing to desist from terrorism, leading to his arrest on the 3rd of April of that same year. -
Olympic park bombing
During the 1996 Olympic games, a man by the name of Eric Robert Rudolph set off a bomb in the park attempting to kill spectators attending a concert. He placed a bomb under a bench nearby a sound tower. The bomb was comprised of three large pipe bombs that would go off with nails around them, which caused most of the injuries. Though, origonally, the security guard who found the bomb, Richard Jewell, was wrongly accused, but was later freed from the charges. -
US solddiers in Yugoslavia/Black Hawk down
Americans were first sent to Yugoslavia in February of 1998 to deal with the Kosovo war that was being fought in Yugoslavia. On the 9th of June in 1998 Bill Clinton declared a national state of emergency because of the unusually high international threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States because of Yugoslavia and Serbia during the Kosovo war. Black hawk down refers to the mission that was supposed to last an hour to capture two higher ups in the Serbian army. -
NATO bombing in Yugoslavia
This series of bombings was an attack after Yugoslavia had moveed troops into a city where a UN peacekeeping mission recently started. The bombings started on March 24th of 1999, but didn't end until June 10th of that same year. NATO attempted to get the approval of the UNSC to use military forces to stop the percicution of the Albanian population of the country. When the request was vetoed by Russia, NATO started bombing anyway. During the bombings, between 489 and 528 civilians were killed. -
Columbine shooting
At 11:19 am, two senior students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, open fired in the Columbine highschool library. The two had been planning this for months in advance, they had even planted bombs in the school and to the north and south as diversions. Though on April 20th, they ended up killing 12 students and one teacher at the school, then at 12:08 am, the two both commited suicide at the same time. This event sparked contrivercy over things like gun laws, and antidepressant use in teens. -
Y2K scare
Y2K, obviously standing for year two thousand, was the scare that when the clock hit midnight on January first 2000, that all of the computers in the world would fail all at once. Planes would fall from the sky, all computers wouldn't work, and we'd be back in the stone age. Though this never happened, not nearly as dramatically as thought. There were a few bugs when getting the date from computers, but the whole world's computers didn't fail.
