Thursday, February 5

Good morning!

We will look at the events in Post-War America following the Civil War (Reconstruction Era)

Today in History:

1811

After George III was declared insane, the Prince of Wales became Prince Regent of England, and later George IV.

1917

Congress passed the Immigration Act, which restricted Asian immigration, over President Wilson's veto.

1917

Mexico adopted its present constitution.

1937

FDR proposed increasing the number of Supreme Court justices—"packing" the court.

1990 - Columbia University graduate and Harvard University law student Barack Obama became

 the first African American named president of the Harvard Law Review.

1994

Byron De La Beckwith was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Medgar Evers, 30 years after the crime in Jackson, Mississippi.