1840s
The 1840s contain 16 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1849-01-24 | California Gold Rush Enables Massive Land Speculation Fraud and Corruption Schemes Palmer (San Francisco banker) · Pio Pico · Peralta family · California state government | confirmed | |
| 1848-11-07 | Free Soil Party Splits Democratic Vote, Demonstrating Slavery's Destruction of Party Unity Martin Van Buren · Free Soil Party · Democratic Party · Whig Party · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1848-07-19 | Seneca Falls Convention Launches Women's Rights Movement with Declaration of Sentiments Elizabeth Cady Stanton · Lucretia Mott · Frederick Douglass · Jane Hunt · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1848-02-02 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Promises Land Rights Then Enables Systematic Theft from Mexican Americans U.S. Senate · Mexico · Mexican Americans · U.S. government · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1848-01-24 | California Gold Rush Triggers Genocide, Lawlessness, and Massive Land Fraud California settlers · Mexican land grant holders · Indigenous Californians · U.S. military government · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1847-01-04 | Samuel Colt Rescues Failing Gun Company with Mexican War Government Contract Samuel Colt · Samuel Walker · U.S. government · Eli Whitney Jr. | confirmed | |
| 1846-08-08 | Wilmot Proviso Triggers Sectional Crisis Over Slavery in Conquered Mexican Territory David Wilmot · James K. Polk · U.S. House of Representatives · U.S. Senate · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1846-05-13 | Mexican-American War Begins as Deliberate Land Grab for Slavery Expansion James K. Polk · U.S. Congress · Mexico · Whig Party opposition · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1846-05-11 | Polk Deceives Congress into War Declaration with False American Blood Claims James K. Polk · Zachary Taylor · U.S. Congress · Abraham Lincoln · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1845-03-01 | Texas Annexed as Slave State Despite Nine Years of Antislavery Opposition James K. Polk · John Tyler · John C. Calhoun · U.S. Congress · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1845-01-01 | Manifest Destiny Ideology Provides Racist Justification for Territorial Conquest and Indigenous Genocide John L. O'Sullivan · James K. Polk · U.S. government · Indigenous peoples · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1844-03-01 | Tyler Administration Conducts Secret Texas Annexation Negotiations to Expand Slavery John Tyler · Abel P. Upshur · John C. Calhoun · Isaac Van Zandt | confirmed | |
| 1843-10-16 | Tyler Begins Secret Texas Annexation Talks to Strengthen Slave Power John Tyler · Abel P. Upshur · Isaac Van Zandt · Slave Power | confirmed | |
| 1842-03-01 | Prigg v Pennsylvania Supreme Court Ruling Protects Slave Catchers and Enables Kidnapping U.S. Supreme Court · Justice Joseph Story · Justice John McLean · Edward Prigg · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1841-09-13 | Whigs Expel Tyler After Bank Vetoes Reveal States' Rights Corruption Agenda John Tyler · Henry Clay · Whig Party · Cabinet Members | confirmed | |
| 1840-11-02 | Log Cabin Campaign Uses Image Manipulation and Corruption Attacks to Defeat Van Buren William Henry Harrison · Martin Van Buren · Whig Party · Charles Ogle | confirmed |