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U.S. Congress

U.S. Congress is named in 232 events across the Capture Cascade Timeline, from 1791 to 2026.

232 events From Feb 25, 1791 To May 11, 2026 Open in filter view →
U.S. Congress on the timeline 232 events · 1791–2026 · click any marker
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DateEventLanesStatus
1868-07-09Fourteenth Amendment Ratified: Corporate Hijacking Begins 3 src
U.S. Congress · Louisiana Legislature · South Carolina Legislature · Reconstruction Governments
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1863-03-02Congress Passes False Claims Act Allowing Citizens to Sue War Profiteers After Contractor Fraud Crisis 3 src
Abraham Lincoln · U.S. Congress · War profiteers
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1862-07-01Pacific Railway Act Creates Land Grant System Enabling Massive Railroad Speculation and Corruption 3 src
Abraham Lincoln · U.S. Congress · Union Pacific Railroad · Central Pacific Railroad · +2
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1862-02-25Legal Tender Act Creates Unbacked Greenback Currency Enabling Speculation and Inflation Despite Constitutional Questions 3 src
U.S. Congress · Abraham Lincoln · Edmund Dick Taylor · Wall Street
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1854-05-30Kansas-Nebraska Act Repeals Missouri Compromise, Triggering Violent Territorial Conflict 3 src
Stephen A. Douglas · Franklin Pierce · U.S. Congress · Pro-slavery Border Ruffians · +1
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1851-03-03California Land Act of 1851 Enables Systematic Legal Theft from Mexican Land Grant Holders 3 src
William M. Gwin · U.S. Congress · Board of Land Commissioners · Californio landowners · +2
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1850-09-18Fugitive Slave Act Transforms Federal Government into Kidnapping Apparatus for Slaveholders 5 src
U.S. Congress · Millard Fillmore · Federal commissioners · Federal marshals · +2
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1850-04-22California Legislature Begins Funding State Militia Expeditions for Indigenous Genocide 4 src
California State Legislature · California governors · State militia · Indigenous Californians · +1
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1846-05-13Mexican-American War Begins as Deliberate Land Grab for Slavery Expansion 3 src
James K. Polk · U.S. Congress · Mexico · Whig Party opposition · +1
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1846-05-11Polk Deceives Congress into War Declaration with False American Blood Claims 3 src
James K. Polk · Zachary Taylor · U.S. Congress · Abraham Lincoln · +1
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1845-03-01Texas Annexed as Slave State Despite Nine Years of Antislavery Opposition 4 src
James K. Polk · John Tyler · John C. Calhoun · U.S. Congress · +2
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1837-05-10Panic of 1837 Begins as Banks Refuse Specie Conversion, Triggering Five-Year Depression 6 src
Martin Van Buren · Andrew Jackson · New York banks · State banks · +1
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1835-12-29Treaty of New Echota Signed by Unauthorized Cherokee Minority Provides Legal Pretext for Forced Removal 4 src
Cherokee Nation · John Ross · Treaty Party · U.S. Congress · +2
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1833-10-01Nicholas Biddle Deliberately Contracts Credit to Create "Biddle's Panic" and Force Bank Recharter 4 src
Nicholas Biddle · Second Bank of the United States · Andrew Jackson · Henry Clay · +3
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1833-09-26Jackson Removes Federal Deposits to "Pet Banks" Selected Through Political Patronage, Not Financial Merit 4 src
Andrew Jackson · Roger Taney · Louis McLane · William J. Duane · +2
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1832-11-24South Carolina Nullification Crisis Previews Slave Power Secession Tactics 3 src
John C. Calhoun · Andrew Jackson · South Carolina · Henry Clay · +1
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1830-05-28Indian Removal Act Authorizes Ethnic Cleansing to Benefit Land Speculators and Slaveholders 3 src
Andrew Jackson · U.S. Congress · Cherokee Nation · Five Civilized Tribes · +2
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1828-05-19Tariff of Abominations Imposes 45% Import Taxes, Triggering Nullification Crisis and Sectional Conflict 3 src
U.S. Congress · John C. Calhoun · Andrew Jackson · Southern planters · +1
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1821-08-10Missouri Compromise Finalizes Slave State Expansion After Racial Exclusion Crisis 3 src
U.S. Congress · James Monroe · Henry Clay · Daniel Pope Cook · +1
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1820-03-03Missouri Compromise Institutionalizes Slavery Expansion Through Sectional Bargaining 3 src
Henry Clay · James Monroe · U.S. Congress · Slave Power advocates
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1819-03-03Civilization Fund Act Authorizes Federal Funding for Indigenous Assimilation Schools, Laying Groundwork for Boarding School System 3 src
U.S. Congress · President James Monroe · Bureau of Indian Affairs · Religious missions · +2
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1818-08-01National Road Reaches Wheeling, Demonstrating Federal Infrastructure Capability Despite Constitutional Debates 3 src
U.S. Congress · Thomas Jefferson · George Washington · Henry McKinley
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1817-03-03Madison Vetoes Bonus Bill for Internal Improvements on Constitutional Grounds, Setting Precedent Against Federal Infrastructure 3 src
President James Madison · John C. Calhoun · Henry Clay · U.S. Congress
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1816-04-27Tariff of 1816 Establishes Protectionism as Core of American System Economic Policy 3 src
Henry Clay · U.S. Congress · Northern manufacturers · Southern planters
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1816-04-10Second Bank of the United States Chartered, Immediately Plagued by Speculation and Fraud 3 src
President James Madison · U.S. Congress · Second Bank of the United States · William Jones
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1812-06-18War of 1812 Declared, Enabling Widespread Profiteering and Contractor Fraud 3 src
President James Madison · U.S. Congress · British Empire · War profiteers
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1807-12-22Embargo Act Demonstrates Economic Warfare Against Domestic Political Opposition 3 src
President Thomas Jefferson · U.S. Congress · New England merchants · Federalist Party
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1807-03-02Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves Signed After Constitutional 20-Year Protection Expires 3 src
Thomas Jefferson · U.S. Congress · Joseph Bradley Varnum
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1798-07-07Quasi-War Enables Military-Industrial Expansion and Permanent Navy Establishment 3 src
President John Adams · Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert · U.S. Congress · George Washington · +1
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1794-03-22Slave Trade Act of 1794 Prohibits American Ships from International Slave Trade 3 src
U.S. Congress · George Washington · American ship owners
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1793-02-12Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 Creates Federal Enforcement Apparatus for Slavery 6 src
U.S. Congress · George Washington · Federal judges · Slaveholders · +1
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1791-02-25First Bank of the United States Establishes Financial Elite Capture Pattern 3 src
Alexander Hamilton · Thomas Jefferson · James Madison · George Washington · +1
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