Court Cases and Trials Theme #6
Colonial America The Salem Witch Trials (1690s) trial of John Peter Zenger (1735)
The “Marshall Court” (1801-1835) Marbury v. Madison McCulloch v. Maryland Dartmouth College v. Woodward Gibbons v. Ogden Worcester v. Georgia
19th Century Civil Rights Cases Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) 1873 Slaughterhouse Cases and 1883 Civil Rights Cases Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Cases involving Business and Labor Charles River Bridge case (1837) Munn v. Illinois (1877) United States v. EC Knight (1895) Northern Securities v. United States (1904) Muller v. Oregon (1908) Schechter v. United States (1935) Youngstown Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer (1952)
Famous Trials of the 1920s trial of Sacco and Vanzetti (1920) trial of John T. Scopes (1925)
War and Freedom Schenck v. United States (1919) Korematsu v. United States (1944)
The “Warren Court” (1953-1969) Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Mapp v. Ohio Baker v. Carr Engel v. Vitale Gideon v. Wainwright Escobedo v. Illinois Griswold v. Connecticut Miranda v. Arizona
1970 and Beyond Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (1971) Roe v. Wade (1973) United States v. Nixon (1974) Regents of California v. Bakke (1978) Bush v. Gore (2000)