1790s
The 1790s contain 11 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1798-07-14 | Alien and Sedition Acts Criminalize Political Dissent and Democratic Opposition President John Adams · Federalist Party · Secretary of State Timothy Pickering · Democratic-Republican newspaper editors · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1798-07-07 | Quasi-War Enables Military-Industrial Expansion and Permanent Navy Establishment President John Adams · Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert · U.S. Congress · George Washington · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1797-10-18 | XYZ Affair Exposes French Diplomatic Bribery Demands and Triggers Quasi-War Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord · Charles Cotesworth Pinckney · John Marshall · Elbridge Gerry · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1795-01-07 | Yazoo Land Fraud Represents Largest Corruption Scandal of Early Republic Georgia Legislature · Governor George Mathews · Senator James Gunn · Four land development companies | confirmed | |
| 1794-08-07 | Whiskey Rebellion Establishes Federal Power to Suppress Domestic Dissent with Military Force George Washington · Alexander Hamilton · Western Pennsylvania farmers · U.S. Militia | confirmed | |
| 1794-03-22 | Slave Trade Act of 1794 Prohibits American Ships from International Slave Trade U.S. Congress · George Washington · American ship owners | confirmed | |
| 1793-03-14 | Cotton Gin Patent Transforms Slavery from Declining Institution to Booming Economic Engine Eli Whitney · Southern planters · Enslaved people | confirmed | |
| 1793-02-12 | Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 Creates Federal Enforcement Apparatus for Slavery U.S. Congress · George Washington · Federal judges · Slaveholders · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1791-02-25 | First Bank of the United States Establishes Financial Elite Capture Pattern Alexander Hamilton · Thomas Jefferson · James Madison · George Washington · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1790-03-26 | Naturalization Act Restricts Citizenship to Free White Persons Creating Racial Caste System First Congress · George Washington | confirmed | |
| 1790-02-11 | Quaker Antislavery Petitions to First Congress Trigger Fierce Debate and Tabling Society of Friends (Quakers) · Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery · Benjamin Franklin · James Madison · +2 | confirmed |