New Jersey vs. T.L.O.

1. T.L.O's fourth amendment rights were violated becasue the search and seizure occured under unprobable cause

2. The fourth amendment does not apply to children in public schools because while they are on school campus they are under the protection of the school and the school has the right to search and seizure in order to protect children from harmful situations and substances.

3. I think it was reasonable beacause the fourth amendment states that you cannot search and seizure under unreaonable cause and the school had a reason to search T.L.O beacause a teacher saw them smoking which was proven when he opened up the purse.

4. There must be a reasonable clasue for search and seizure.

5. The Supreme Court should rule in favor of the school because the school had reasonable cause for search and seizure.

Civil War reconstruction political cartoon

This political cartoon during the civil war reconstruction era referred to the presidential election of 1860. In the background there is a cloth with the United States map on it and there are four men which are the candidates for the presidential election(Abraham Lincoln, John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen A. Douglas) dividing the map. This cartoon shows how the four candidates running in the presidential elction of 1860 were fighting to win states and this also shows who was winning certain states.

The history of the Ku Klux Klan

           In 1866, a group of confederate veterans started what is known today as the Ku Klux Klan. In 1867, local klans created an "Invisible Empire of the South". Nathan Bedford Forrest was chosen as the "grand wizard" of the klan. The KKK dedicated itself to reversing the policies of radical reconstruction and and restoring white supremacy in the South. During reconstruction, many symbols of black autonomy were attacked by KKK members. By 1870, The KKK was found in nearly every southern state and flourished where african americans were a minority. Due to the fear risen from the klan there was an enforcement act created named the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. This act enforced equal protection among all citizens. In 1915, there was a revival of the KKK and it reached its peak of 4 million members in the 1920s. In 1930s the klan was depleted due to the great depression. The KKK still exists today and estimates that there is about 6,000 members who are mainly in the deep South.

Presidential Election Blog

Stephen Douglas was born in Brandon, Vermont in 1813. Throughout his life, he was very involved in government and Congress. Stephen Douglas was attorney general of Illinois in 1834, member of the legislature in 1835, secretary of state in 1840,judge of the Supreme Court in 1841, and member of the House of Representatives in 1847. He heavily believed in an idea referred to as popular sovereignty.Popular sovereignty is where territories are allowed to vote whether they would like to be a slave or non-slave state. During the election, Stephen Douglas was a northern democrat and he did not want to abolish slavery.-Alexis Basgil