| 1887-02-04 | Interstate Commerce Act: First Federal Regulatory Response to Corporate Monopoly
3 src U.S. Congress · Interstate Commerce Commission |
| confirmed |
| 1884-11-04 | Cleveland Election Marks Shift Toward Corporate Campaign Financing
3 src Grover Cleveland · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1882-05-06 | Chinese Exclusion Act Bans Immigration Through Racist Labor Scapegoating
3 src Chester A. Arthur · U.S. Congress · Labor unions |
| confirmed |
| 1878-06-18 | Posse Comitatus Act Restricts Federal Military from Domestic Law Enforcement
3 src Rutherford B. Hayes · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1878-02-28 | Bland-Allison Act Overrides Presidential Veto, Restores Silver Coinage
3 src Rutherford B. Hayes · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1877-02-28 | Congress Seizes Black Hills With Only 10% Sioux Consent, Violating Fort Laramie Treaty Requirement for 75% Approval
3 src U.S. Congress · Sioux Nation · Ulysses S. Grant |
| confirmed |
| 1874-01-20 | Congress Repeals Salary Grab Act After Public Outrage Over Corruption
3 src U.S. Congress · Ulysses S. Grant |
| confirmed |
| 1868-07-09 | Fourteenth Amendment Ratified: Corporate Hijacking Begins
3 src U.S. Congress · Louisiana Legislature · South Carolina Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 1863-03-02 | Congress Passes False Claims Act Allowing Citizens to Sue War Profiteers After Contractor Fraud Crisis
3 src Abraham Lincoln · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1862-07-01 | Pacific Railway Act Creates Land Grant System Enabling Massive Railroad Speculation and Corruption
3 src Abraham Lincoln · U.S. Congress · Land speculators | | confirmed |
| 1862-02-25 | Legal Tender Act Creates Unbacked Greenback Currency Enabling Speculation and Inflation Despite Constitutional Questions
3 src U.S. Congress · Abraham Lincoln · Wall Street | | confirmed |
| 1854-05-30 | Kansas-Nebraska Act Repeals Missouri Compromise, Triggering Violent Territorial Conflict
3 src Stephen A. Douglas · Franklin Pierce · U.S. Congress · Free-State settlers | | confirmed |
| 1851-03-03 | California Land Act of 1851 Enables Systematic Legal Theft from Mexican Land Grant Holders
3 src U.S. Congress · Land speculators | | confirmed |
| 1850-09-18 | Fugitive Slave Act Transforms Federal Government into Kidnapping Apparatus for Slaveholders
5 src U.S. Congress · Slaveholders | | confirmed |
| 1850-04-22 | California Legislature Begins Funding State Militia Expeditions for Indigenous Genocide
4 src California State Legislature · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1846-05-13 | Mexican-American War Begins as Deliberate Land Grab for Slavery Expansion
3 src James K. Polk · U.S. Congress · Mexico · Abraham Lincoln | | confirmed |
| 1846-05-11 | Polk Deceives Congress into War Declaration with False American Blood Claims
3 src James K. Polk · U.S. Congress · Abraham Lincoln · Whig Party | | confirmed |
| 1845-03-01 | Texas Annexed as Slave State Despite Nine Years of Antislavery Opposition
4 src James K. Polk · John Tyler · John C. Calhoun · U.S. Congress · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1837-05-10 | Panic of 1837 Begins as Banks Refuse Specie Conversion, Triggering Five-Year Depression
6 src Martin Van Buren · Andrew Jackson · State banks · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1835-12-29 | Treaty of New Echota Signed by Unauthorized Cherokee Minority Provides Legal Pretext for Forced Removal
4 src Cherokee Nation · U.S. Congress · Andrew Jackson · Martin Van Buren | | confirmed |
| 1833-10-01 | Nicholas Biddle Deliberately Contracts Credit to Create "Biddle's Panic" and Force Bank Recharter
4 src Second Bank of the United States · Andrew Jackson · Henry Clay · U.S. Congress · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1833-09-26 | Jackson Removes Federal Deposits to "Pet Banks" Selected Through Political Patronage, Not Financial Merit
4 src Andrew Jackson · U.S. Congress · State banks | | confirmed |
| 1832-11-24 | South Carolina Nullification Crisis Previews Slave Power Secession Tactics
3 src John C. Calhoun · Andrew Jackson · Henry Clay · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1830-05-28 | Indian Removal Act Authorizes Ethnic Cleansing to Benefit Land Speculators and Slaveholders
3 src Andrew Jackson · U.S. Congress · Cherokee Nation · Land speculators · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1828-05-19 | Tariff of Abominations Imposes 45% Import Taxes, Triggering Nullification Crisis and Sectional Conflict
3 src U.S. Congress · John C. Calhoun · Andrew Jackson · Southern planters | | confirmed |
| 1821-08-10 | Missouri Compromise Finalizes Slave State Expansion After Racial Exclusion Crisis
3 src U.S. Congress · James Monroe · Henry Clay | | confirmed |
| 1820-03-03 | Missouri Compromise Institutionalizes Slavery Expansion Through Sectional Bargaining
3 src Henry Clay · James Monroe · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1819-03-03 | Civilization Fund Act Authorizes Federal Funding for Indigenous Assimilation Schools, Laying Groundwork for Boarding School System
3 src U.S. Congress · James Monroe · Bureau of Indian Affairs |
| confirmed |
| 1818-08-01 | National Road Reaches Wheeling, Demonstrating Federal Infrastructure Capability Despite Constitutional Debates
3 src U.S. Congress · Thomas Jefferson · George Washington | | confirmed |
| 1817-03-03 | Madison Vetoes Bonus Bill for Internal Improvements on Constitutional Grounds, Setting Precedent Against Federal Infrastructure
3 src James Madison · John C. Calhoun · Henry Clay · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1816-04-27 | Tariff of 1816 Establishes Protectionism as Core of American System Economic Policy
3 src Henry Clay · U.S. Congress · Southern planters | | confirmed |
| 1816-04-10 | Second Bank of the United States Chartered, Immediately Plagued by Speculation and Fraud
3 src James Madison · U.S. Congress · Second Bank of the United States | | confirmed |
| 1812-06-18 | War of 1812 Declared, Enabling Widespread Profiteering and Contractor Fraud
3 src James Madison · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1807-12-22 | Embargo Act Demonstrates Economic Warfare Against Domestic Political Opposition
3 src Thomas Jefferson · U.S. Congress · Federalist Party | | confirmed |
| 1807-03-02 | Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves Signed After Constitutional 20-Year Protection Expires
3 src Thomas Jefferson · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1798-07-07 | Quasi-War Enables Military-Industrial Expansion and Permanent Navy Establishment
3 src John Adams · U.S. Congress · George Washington | | confirmed |
| 1794-03-22 | Slave Trade Act of 1794 Prohibits American Ships from International Slave Trade
3 src U.S. Congress · George Washington | | confirmed |
| 1793-02-12 | Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 Creates Federal Enforcement Apparatus for Slavery
6 src U.S. Congress · George Washington · Federal judges · Slaveholders | | confirmed |
| 1791-02-25 | First Bank of the United States Establishes Financial Elite Capture Pattern
3 src Alexander Hamilton · Thomas Jefferson · James Madison · George Washington · +1 | | confirmed |