1880s
The 1880s contain 22 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1889-01-07 | Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway v. Beckwith: Corporate Personhood Doctrine Becomes Settled Law U.S. Supreme Court · Justice Stephen Field · Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Company | confirmed | |
| 1888-01-07 | Pembina Consolidated Silver Mining Co. v. Pennsylvania: Court Explicitly Affirms Corporate Personhood U.S. Supreme Court · Justice Stephen Field · Pembina Consolidated Silver Mining and Milling Company · Commonwealth of Pennsylvania | confirmed | |
| 1887-10-27 | Sugar Trust Formation: Henry Havemeyer Consolidates 75% of Sugar Refining Henry Osborne Havemeyer · Sugar Refineries Company · American Sugar Refining Company | confirmed | |
| 1887-07-06 | Armed Militia Forces King Kalakaua to Sign "Bayonet Constitution," Stripping Hawaiian Sovereignty and Disenfranchising Native Hawaiians King Kalakaua · Hawaiian League · Sanford B. Dole · Lorrin Thurston · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1887-02-08 | Dawes Allotment Act Destroys Tribal Land Ownership, Facilitating Loss of 90 Million Acres to White Settlers Senator Henry L. Dawes · U.S. Congress · President Grover Cleveland · Bureau of Indian Affairs · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1887-02-04 | Interstate Commerce Act: First Federal Regulatory Response to Corporate Monopoly U.S. Congress · Interstate Commerce Commission · Granger Movement · Railroad Industry · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1886-12-08 | American Federation of Labor Founded on Craft Union Model Excluding Unskilled Workers Samuel Gompers · Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions · Knights of Labor · Craft unions | confirmed | |
| 1886-10-25 | Wabash v. Illinois: Supreme Court Shields Interstate Monopolies from Regulation U.S. Supreme Court · Wabash Railroad · Illinois Legislature · Interstate Commerce | confirmed | |
| 1886-05-10 | Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad: The Corporate Personhood Precedent That Never Was U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice Morrison Waite · J.C. Bancroft Davis (Court Reporter) · Southern Pacific Railroad · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1886-05-04 | Haymarket Affair Bombing and Police Violence Trigger Massive Anti-Labor Backlash Chicago Police Department · Albert Parsons · Lucy Parsons · August Spies · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1886-03-25 | Railroad Commission Cases: State Regulation Affirmed with Corporate Property Rights Caveat U.S. Supreme Court · Mississippi Legislature · Farmers' Loan & Trust Company · Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1886-01-01 | Knights of Labor Reaches Peak Membership of 700,000 Before Rapid Collapse Terence V. Powderly · Knights of Labor · Jay Gould · American workers | confirmed | |
| 1885-07-01 | J.P. Morgan Yacht Meeting: Ending Railroad Competition Through Financial Coercion J.P. Morgan · New York Central Railroad · Pennsylvania Railroad · Railroad Executives | confirmed | |
| 1884-11-04 | Cleveland Election Marks Shift Toward Corporate Campaign Financing Grover Cleveland · James G. Blaine · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1884-06-03 | Mugwump Republicans Bolt Party Over Blaine Nomination, Citing Corruption James G. Blaine · Grover Cleveland · Carl Schurz · Mark Twain · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1883-10-15 | Civil Rights Cases Strike Down 1875 Act, Legitimizing Jim Crow U.S. Supreme Court · Joseph P. Bradley · John Marshall Harlan | confirmed | |
| 1882-12-19 | Roscoe Conkling's Fraudulent Argument for Corporate Personhood in San Mateo County v. Southern Pacific Roscoe Conkling · U.S. Supreme Court · Southern Pacific Railroad · San Mateo County · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1882-05-06 | Chinese Exclusion Act Bans Immigration Through Racist Labor Scapegoating Chester A. Arthur · U.S. Congress · Chinese immigrant workers · Labor unions · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1882-01-02 | Standard Oil Trust Formed - First Modern Corporate Monopoly Structure John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · Henry Flagler · Samuel C. T. Dodd · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1881-07-02 | Charles Guiteau Shoots President Garfield Over Patronage Denial James A. Garfield · Charles J. Guiteau · Chester A. Arthur · James Blaine | confirmed | |
| 1881-04-01 | Garfield Launches Investigation of Star Route Postal Fraud Scheme James A. Garfield · Thomas J. Brady · Stephen W. Dorsey · Chester A. Arthur · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1880-01-01 | Pullman Company Town Established as Model of Corporate Paternalistic Control George Pullman · Pullman Palace Car Company · Company town workers | confirmed |