1. Court Cases and Trials
Theme #6

2. Colonial America The Salem Witch Trials (1690s)
trial of John Peter Zenger (1735)

3. The “Marshall Court” (1801-1835)
Marbury v. Madison
McCulloch v. Maryland
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
Gibbons v. Ogden
Worcester v. Georgia

4. 19th Century Civil Rights Cases
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
1873 Slaughterhouse Cases and 1883 Civil Rights Cases
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

5. 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)

6. Famous Trials of the 1920s trial of Sacco and Vanzetti (1920)
trial of John T. Scopes (1925)

7. War and Freedom Schenck v. United States (1919)
Korematsu v. United States (1944)

8. 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

9. 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)