10 Top Trials/Court Cases

17th Century – 20th Century

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(Way) Back in the day…

• 1637 – Anne Hutchinson• 1692 – Salem Witch Trials

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Not Fun

Why could I not find any for the 18th Century?!

• The Colonists probably tried to bring up some grievances w/ the British in their own court system before the heated years of the Revolutionary War

Early 1800’s

• 1803 -- Marbury v. Madison• 1824 – Gibbons v. Ogden

• Federal over state

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Savages! (you know I’m kidding)

• 1832 – Worcester v. Georgia• Only the US, not the individual, not the state, can steal

Indian land / decide their fate.

US: 15 Indians: 0

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18-right here-00’s

• 1857 – Dred Scott Case

Whites: 8 Blacks: 0

Halfway there!

• 1896 – Plessy v. Ferguson• Williams v. Mississippi facilitate Jim Crow laws• Later reversed in Brown v. Board of Education

Whites: 20 Blacks: still 0

During WWI

• 1919 - Schenck v. United States• So speech isn’t really free

Speech!I no like da

war….

Roaring ’20s

• 1925 – Scopes Trial• Who needs religion when we have rag-time and flappers

anyways? And don’t forget the monkeys.

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(Not so) Back in the day

• 1951 – Rosenberg Case • Much like Sacco and Vanzetti

Afraid of “Commi”s eh?

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Yup, That’s 10, remember them.

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