Decade of record

1840s

The 1840s contain 16 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.

16 events From Nov 2, 1840 To Jan 24, 1849 Open in filter view →

Activity over time Events per year

Date	Event	Lanes	Status
1849-01-24	California Gold Rush Enables Massive Land Speculation Fraud and Corruption Schemes 3 src		confirmed
1848-11-07	Free Soil Party Splits Democratic Vote, Demonstrating Slavery's Destruction of Party Unity 3 src Martin Van Buren · Democratic Party · Whig Party		confirmed
1848-07-19	Seneca Falls Convention Launches Women's Rights Movement with Declaration of Sentiments 3 src Elizabeth Cady Stanton · Frederick Douglass		confirmed
1848-02-02	Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Promises Land Rights Then Enables Systematic Theft from Mexican Americans 4 src U.S. Senate · Mexico · U.S. government		confirmed
1848-01-24	California Gold Rush Triggers Genocide, Lawlessness, and Massive Land Fraud 4 src		confirmed
1847-01-04	Samuel Colt Rescues Failing Gun Company with Mexican War Government Contract 3 src U.S. government		confirmed
1846-08-08	Wilmot Proviso Triggers Sectional Crisis Over Slavery in Conquered Mexican Territory 4 src James K. Polk · U.S. House of Representatives · U.S. Senate · Northern Democrats · +1		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
1845-01-01	Manifest Destiny Ideology Provides Racist Justification for Territorial Conquest and Indigenous Genocide 4 src James K. Polk · U.S. government		confirmed
1844-03-01	Tyler Administration Conducts Secret Texas Annexation Negotiations to Expand Slavery 3 src John Tyler · John C. Calhoun		confirmed
1843-10-16	Tyler Begins Secret Texas Annexation Talks to Strengthen Slave Power 3 src John Tyler		confirmed
1842-03-01	Prigg v Pennsylvania Supreme Court Ruling Protects Slave Catchers and Enables Kidnapping 3 src U.S. Supreme Court		confirmed
1841-09-13	Whigs Expel Tyler After Bank Vetoes Reveal States' Rights Corruption Agenda 3 src John Tyler · Henry Clay · Whig Party		confirmed
1840-11-02	Log Cabin Campaign Uses Image Manipulation and Corruption Attacks to Defeat Van Buren 3 src Martin Van Buren · Whig Party		confirmed