| 1869-12-10 | Wyoming Territory Becomes First in U.S. to Grant Women Full Voting Rights
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1869-09-24 | Black Friday - Gould and Fisk Gold Corner Attempt Triggers Financial Panic
3 src Jay Gould · Ulysses S. Grant · U.S. Treasury | | confirmed |
| 1869-05-15 | Suffrage Movement Splits Over 15th Amendment as Stanton and Anthony Deploy Racist Rhetoric
3 src Susan B. Anthony · Elizabeth Cady Stanton · Frederick Douglass | | confirmed |
| 1868-07-09 | Fourteenth Amendment Ratified: Corporate Hijacking Begins
3 src U.S. Congress · Louisiana Legislature · South Carolina Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 1868-04-29 | Fort Laramie Treaty Guarantees Black Hills to Sioux in Perpetuity - Later Violated for Gold Rush
3 src Sioux Nation · U.S. government |
| confirmed |
| 1868-03-04 | Erie War Escalates - Gould and Fisk Flee to Jersey with $7 Million in Watered Stock
4 src Jay Gould | | confirmed |
| 1868-02-24 | Andrew Johnson Impeached for Obstructing Reconstruction
4 src Andrew Johnson · U.S. House of Representatives |
| confirmed |
| 1867-01-01 | Vanderbilt Consolidates New York Central Railroad - Creates First Giant Railroad System
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1866-02-19 | Johnson Vetoes Freedmen's Bureau Expansion, Sabotaging Reconstruction
4 src Andrew Johnson · Republican Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1866-01-01 | Alabama Initiates Convict Leasing: Slavery by Another Name
3 src Railroad companies |
| confirmed |
| 1865-12-24 | Ku Klux Klan Founded as Terrorist Organization to Restore White Supremacy
4 src | | confirmed |
| 1865-11-24 | Mississippi Enacts First Black Codes: Blueprint for Convict Leasing
3 src Southern planters |
| confirmed |
| 1865-05-29 | Andrew Johnson Begins Mass Pardons of Confederate Leaders
4 src Andrew Johnson · Republican Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1865-04-14 | John Wilkes Booth Assassinates Lincoln in Coordinated Conspiracy to Decapitate Union Government After Confederate Defeat
3 src Abraham Lincoln · Lewis Powell · Andrew Johnson | | confirmed |
| 1864-11-29 | Sand Creek Massacre - Colorado Militia Slaughters 150 Peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Under Protection Flag
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1864-11-08 | Copperheads Attempt Election Manipulation Through Peace Platform and Confederate Conspiracy While Deploying Racist Propaganda
3 src Abraham Lincoln · Democratic Party | | confirmed |
| 1863-07-13 | New York Draft Riots Explode Over Class-Based Conscription System Enabling Wealthy to Buy Exemptions While Poor Fight
3 src Democratic Party | | 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 |
| 1863-01-15 | Treasury Department Cotton Permit System Enables Massive Corruption as Officials Trade with Enemy for Personal Profit
3 src U.S. Treasury Department · Abraham Lincoln |
| confirmed |
| 1863-01-01 | Emancipation Proclamation Faces Violent Northern Resistance from Democrats and White Supremacists Fearing Labor Competition
3 src Abraham Lincoln · Northern Democrats · Frederick Douglass | | 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 |
| 1862-05-01 | General Benjamin Butler's New Orleans Occupation Marked by Systematic Corruption and Cotton Trade Profiteering
3 src Abraham Lincoln | | 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 |
| 1862-01-13 | Lincoln's Secretary of War Simon Cameron Resigns Amid Procurement Corruption and Contract Fraud Enabling Profiteering
3 src Abraham Lincoln · U.S. House of Representatives |
| confirmed |
| 1861-04-21 | Pinkerton Heads Union Intelligence Service for McClellan, First Federal Use of Private Intelligence Personnel
2 src Allan Pinkerton · Pinkerton National Detective Agency · Abraham Lincoln | | confirmed |
| 1861-04-12 | Confederate Bombardment of Fort Sumter Begins Civil War and Triggers Massive War Profiteering Industry
3 src Abraham Lincoln · James Buchanan | | confirmed |
| 1861-01-01 | Civil War Contractors Defraud Government with Defective Weapons and Shoddy Goods Costing Lives and Millions
3 src U.S. War Department |
| confirmed |
| 1860-12-20 | South Carolina Secession Launches Confederate States Formation to Preserve Slavery as Explicit Constitutional Foundation
3 src James Buchanan | | confirmed |
| 1860-04-23 | Democratic Party Convention Split Over Slavery Platform Fractures Last National Institution Binding North and South
3 src Stephen A. Douglas · Democratic Party · Southern Democrats · Northern Democrats | | confirmed |