COLLECT & DISCUSS TUCKER 6 SQUARE. 5.18.16 U. S. HISTORY THROUGH FILM ON THIS DAY: 1652 - In Rhode Island, a law was passed that made slavery illegal in North America. 1798 - The first Secretary of the U.S. Navy was appointed. He was Benjamin Stoddert. 1896 - The U.S. Supreme court upheld the "separate but equal" policy in the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision. 1917 - The U.S. Congress passed the Selective Service act, which called up soldiers to fight in World War I. 1933 - The Tennessee Valley Authority was created. 1934 - The U.S. Congress approved an act, known as the "Lindberg Act," that called for the death penalty in interstate kidnapping cases. 1951 - The United Nations moved its headquarters to New York City. 1953 - The first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound, Jacqueline Cochran, 1974 - India became the sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb. BELL WORK: PICK-UP THE MOVIE WORKSHET & COMPLETE PRE-MOVIE QUESTIONS. AGENDA: COLLECT & DISCUSS TUCKER 6 SQUARE. BEGIN THE MOVIE BRIDGE OF SPIES & 6 SQUARE.