1890s
The 1890s contain 34 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1899-09-06 | Open Door Policy Announced - Corporate Imperialism Disguised as Free Trade John Hay · William Woodville Rockhill · William McKinley · American Asiatic Association · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1899-02-04 | Philippine-American War Begins - Liberation Becomes Brutal Occupation Emilio Aguinaldo · William McKinley · U.S. Army forces · Philippine independence movement · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1899-01-01 | Standard Oil Trust Controls 90% of U.S. Oil Refining - Monopoly Power Peak John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Trust · Railroad corporations · Competing refineries · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1898-11-10 | Wilmington Massacre and Coup: Armed White Supremacists Overthrow Elected Government, Murder Black Citizens Alfred Moore Waddell · Furnifold Simmons · Red Shirts · Wilmington Black Community · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1898-07-07 | Hawaii Annexation - U.S. Legitimizes Corporate Coup Against Monarchy William McKinley · Sanford B. Dole · Queen Liliuokalani · Sugar plantation owners · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1898-05-01 | Embalmed Beef Scandal - War Profiteering and McKinley Administration Negligence Russell A. Alger · William McKinley · Armour & Co · Swift & Co · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1898-04-25 | Spanish-American War Begins - Imperial Expansion Under Humanitarian Pretext William McKinley · Theodore Roosevelt · U.S. Navy · Spanish Empire · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1898-02-15 | USS Maine Explosion - Yellow Journalism Manufactures War Fever William Randolph Hearst · Joseph Pulitzer · New York Journal · New York World · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1897-09-10 | Lattimer Massacre - 19 Unarmed Immigrant Strikers Killed by Sheriff's Posse Sheriff James Martin · Luzerne County deputies · United Mine Workers · Immigrant miners · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1897-07-24 | Dingley Tariff Enacts Highest Protective Rates in History - Corporate Shield William McKinley · Nelson Dingley Jr. · Republican Party · Industrial trusts · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1896-11-03 | McKinley Victory Establishes Mark Hanna's Corporate Fundraising Model William McKinley · Mark Hanna · Standard Oil · John D. Rockefeller · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1896-07-09 | William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech - Populist Challenge to Corporate Power William Jennings Bryan · Democratic National Convention · Populist Party · Eastern banking interests · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1895-05-27 | Supreme Court In Re Debs Decision Upholds Federal Injunctions Against Strikes U.S. Supreme Court · Justice David Josiah Brewer · Eugene V. Debs · Federal Judiciary · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1895-01-21 | U.S. v. E.C. Knight: Supreme Court Shields Sugar Trust and Eviscerates Antitrust Law U.S. Supreme Court · Melville Fuller · American Sugar Refining Company · E.C. Knight Company · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1895-01-01 | J.P. Morgan Railroad Reorganizations Create Consolidated Monopoly Systems J.P. Morgan · J.P. Morgan & Company · Southern Railway · Erie Railroad · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1894-07-03 | Federal Troops Crush Pullman Strike, Imprison Eugene Debs Eugene V. Debs · American Railway Union · President Grover Cleveland · Attorney General Richard Olney · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1894-05-11 | Pullman Strike Begins After Company Town Wage Cuts Without Rent Reductions George Pullman · Eugene V. Debs · American Railway Union · Grover Cleveland · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1894-02-07 | Cripple Creek Miners Strike Achieves Rare Victory Through Governor Intervention Western Federation of Miners · Governor Davis Hanson Waite · Colorado State Militia · John Calderwood · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1893-11-07 | Colorado Voters Approve Women's Suffrage Through Referendum in Historic First Colorado voters · Populist Party · Carrie Chapman Catt · Ellis Meredith | confirmed | |
| 1893-05-15 | Western Federation of Miners Founded After Coeur d'Alene Massacre Western Federation of Miners · Butte miners · Coeur d'Alene strikers · Mining industry workers | confirmed | |
| 1893-03-03 | Anti-Pinkerton Act: Congress Limits Private Armies After Homestead Violence U.S. Congress · Pinkerton Detective Agency | confirmed | |
| 1893-01-17 | U.S. Marines Land in Honolulu, American Businessmen Overthrow Hawaiian Kingdom and Depose Queen Liliuokalani in Illegal Coup Queen Liliuokalani · John L. Stevens · Committee of Safety · Sanford B. Dole · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1892-11-08 | New Orleans General Strike: 30,000 Workers Achieve Interracial Labor Victory Workingmen's Amalgamated Council · Triple Alliance · New Orleans Board of Trade · American Federation of Labor | confirmed | |
| 1892-07-11 | Coeur d'Alene Miners Strike Violence Triggers Martial Law, 600 Imprisoned Without Trial Western Federation of Miners · Pinkerton Detective Agency · Idaho National Guard · U.S. Army · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1892-07-06 | Homestead Strike Battle Between Workers and Pinkerton Agents Leaves 10 Dead Andrew Carnegie · Henry Clay Frick · Pinkerton Detective Agency · Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1892-07-01 | Carnegie Steel Company Formed Through Massive Vertical Integration Consolidation Andrew Carnegie · Henry Clay Frick · Carnegie Steel Company | confirmed | |
| 1892-01-04 | Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad v. Gibbes: Corporate Personhood Reaffirmed U.S. Supreme Court · Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad Company · South Carolina Legislature · State Railroad Commission | confirmed | |
| 1892-01-01 | Pinkerton Detective Agency Operates as Private Corporate Army Against Unions Pinkerton National Detective Agency · Allan Pinkerton · Corporate employers · State Governments · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1891-08-18 | People's Party Officially Forms in Texas, Launching Populist Movement Farmers' Alliance · Knights of Labor · People's Party | confirmed | |
| 1891-07-15 | Coal Creek War Begins: Miners Free Convict Laborers, Attack Lease System Tennessee Coal Mining Company · Knoxville Iron Company · Tennessee Miners · John P. Buchanan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1890-12-29 | Wounded Knee Massacre - U.S. 7th Cavalry Kills 250+ Lakota, Primarily Women and Children, Ending Ghost Dance Movement U.S. 7th Cavalry · Big Foot (Lakota Chief) · Sitting Bull · Lakota Sioux · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1890-07-02 | Sherman Antitrust Act Passed but Designed for Non-Enforcement Against Monopolies Senator John Sherman · President Benjamin Harrison · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1890-02-18 | National American Woman Suffrage Association Formed as Merger Heals 21-Year Split Alice Stone Blackwell · Elizabeth Cady Stanton · Susan B. Anthony · Lucy Stone · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1890-01-01 | Company Towns and Debt Peonage: Corporate Control of Coal Mining Communities Coal Mining Companies · Coal and Iron Police · Pennsylvania Coal Operators | confirmed |