1860s
The 1860s contain 29 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1869-12-10 | Wyoming Territory Becomes First in U.S. to Grant Women Full Voting Rights Wyoming Territorial Legislature · Esther Hobart Morris · William Bright · Wyoming Territory | confirmed | |
| 1869-09-24 | Black Friday - Gould and Fisk Gold Corner Attempt Triggers Financial Panic Jay Gould · James Fisk · President Ulysses S. Grant · Abel Corbin · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1869-05-15 | Suffrage Movement Splits Over 15th Amendment as Stanton and Anthony Deploy Racist Rhetoric Susan B. Anthony · Elizabeth Cady Stanton · Lucy Stone · Henry Blackwell · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1868-07-09 | Fourteenth Amendment Ratified: Corporate Hijacking Begins U.S. Congress · Louisiana Legislature · South Carolina Legislature · Reconstruction Governments | confirmed | |
| 1868-04-29 | Fort Laramie Treaty Guarantees Black Hills to Sioux in Perpetuity - Later Violated for Gold Rush Sioux Nation · U.S. government · Lakota people · Red Cloud | confirmed | |
| 1868-03-04 | Erie War Escalates - Gould and Fisk Flee to Jersey with $7 Million in Watered Stock Jay Gould · James Fisk · Daniel Drew · Cornelius Vanderbilt · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1868-02-24 | Andrew Johnson Impeached for Obstructing Reconstruction Andrew Johnson · Edwin Stanton · U.S. House of Representatives · Radical Republicans · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1867-01-01 | Vanderbilt Consolidates New York Central Railroad - Creates First Giant Railroad System Cornelius Vanderbilt · New York Central Railroad · Hudson River Railroad · Harlem Railroad | confirmed | |
| 1866-02-19 | Johnson Vetoes Freedmen's Bureau Expansion, Sabotaging Reconstruction Andrew Johnson · Lyman Trumbull · Republican Congress · Freedmen's Bureau | confirmed | |
| 1866-01-01 | Alabama Initiates Convict Leasing: Slavery by Another Name Robert Patton (Alabama Governor) · Alabama State Legislature · Coal Mining Companies · Railroad companies | confirmed | |
| 1865-12-24 | Ku Klux Klan Founded as Terrorist Organization to Restore White Supremacy Nathan Bedford Forrest · Confederate Veterans · Calvin E. Jones · John B. Kennedy · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1865-11-24 | Mississippi Enacts First Black Codes: Blueprint for Convict Leasing Mississippi State Legislature · Governor William L. Sharkey · Southern planters | confirmed | |
| 1865-05-29 | Andrew Johnson Begins Mass Pardons of Confederate Leaders Andrew Johnson · Confederate Leaders · Republican Congress | confirmed | |
| 1865-04-14 | John Wilkes Booth Assassinates Lincoln in Coordinated Conspiracy to Decapitate Union Government After Confederate Defeat John Wilkes Booth · Abraham Lincoln · Lewis Powell · George Atzerodt · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1864-11-29 | Sand Creek Massacre - Colorado Militia Slaughters 150 Peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Under Protection Flag Colonel John Chivington · Third Colorado Cavalry · Black Kettle (Cheyenne Chief) · Colorado Territory · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1864-11-08 | Copperheads Attempt Election Manipulation Through Peace Platform and Confederate Conspiracy While Deploying Racist Propaganda Abraham Lincoln · George B. McClellan · Clement Vallandigham · Democratic Party · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1863-07-13 | New York Draft Riots Explode Over Class-Based Conscription System Enabling Wealthy to Buy Exemptions While Poor Fight Irish Americans · Black New Yorkers · Democratic Party · Union Army | confirmed | |
| 1863-03-02 | Congress Passes False Claims Act Allowing Citizens to Sue War Profiteers After Contractor Fraud Crisis Abraham Lincoln · U.S. Congress · War profiteers | confirmed | |
| 1863-01-15 | Treasury Department Cotton Permit System Enables Massive Corruption as Officials Trade with Enemy for Personal Profit U.S. Treasury Department · Charles Dana · Abraham Lincoln · Salmon P. Chase · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1863-01-01 | Emancipation Proclamation Faces Violent Northern Resistance from Democrats and White Supremacists Fearing Labor Competition Abraham Lincoln · Northern Democrats · Copperheads · Frederick Douglass · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1862-07-01 | Pacific Railway Act Creates Land Grant System Enabling Massive Railroad Speculation and Corruption Abraham Lincoln · U.S. Congress · Union Pacific Railroad · Central Pacific Railroad · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1862-05-01 | General Benjamin Butler's New Orleans Occupation Marked by Systematic Corruption and Cotton Trade Profiteering Benjamin F. Butler · Andrew Butler · David G. Farragut · Abraham Lincoln | confirmed | |
| 1862-02-25 | Legal Tender Act Creates Unbacked Greenback Currency Enabling Speculation and Inflation Despite Constitutional Questions U.S. Congress · Abraham Lincoln · Edmund Dick Taylor · Wall Street | confirmed | |
| 1862-01-13 | Lincoln's Secretary of War Simon Cameron Resigns Amid Procurement Corruption and Contract Fraud Enabling Profiteering Simon Cameron · Abraham Lincoln · Edwin M. Stanton · Alexander Cummings · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1861-04-21 | Pinkerton Heads Union Intelligence Service for McClellan, First Federal Use of Private Intelligence Personnel Allan Pinkerton · George B. McClellan · Pinkerton National Detective Agency · Army of the Potomac · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1861-04-12 | Confederate Bombardment of Fort Sumter Begins Civil War and Triggers Massive War Profiteering Industry Confederate States of America · Jefferson Davis · Robert Anderson · Abraham Lincoln · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1861-01-01 | Civil War Contractors Defraud Government with Defective Weapons and Shoddy Goods Costing Lives and Millions U.S. War Department · Union Army · War contractors · Shoddy millionaires | confirmed | |
| 1860-12-20 | South Carolina Secession Launches Confederate States Formation to Preserve Slavery as Explicit Constitutional Foundation Jefferson Davis · Alexander Stephens · South Carolina · Confederate States of America · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1860-04-23 | Democratic Party Convention Split Over Slavery Platform Fractures Last National Institution Binding North and South Stephen A. Douglas · William Yancey · John C. Breckinridge · Democratic Party · +2 | confirmed |