1900s
The 1900s contain 34 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
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Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1909-08-05 | Payne-Aldrich Tariff Betrays Progressive Promises: Taft Praises "Best Tariff Bill," Splits Republican Party President William Howard Taft · Nelson Aldrich · Progressive Republicans · Old Guard Republicans | confirmed | |
| 1909-03-04 | Roosevelt Leaves Office After 44 Antitrust Suits, Revealing Progressive Era Reform Limits Theodore Roosevelt · William Howard Taft · J.P. Morgan · U.S. Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1908-07-26 | Bonaparte Creates Bureau of Investigation Inside DOJ, Bypassing Congressional Opposition Attorney General Charles Bonaparte · President Theodore Roosevelt · Stanley Finch · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1908-02-24 | Muller v. Oregon: Brandeis Brief Upholds Women's Labor Protections Using Paternalistic Reasoning Supreme Court of the United States · Louis Brandeis · Curt Muller · Oregon Legislature · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1908-02-03 | Supreme Court Loewe v. Lawlor Decision Holds Union Members Personally Liable for Damages U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller · United Hatters of North America · D.E. Loewe & Company · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1908-01-27 | Adair v. United States: Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Ban on Yellow-Dog Contracts Supreme Court of the United States · Justice John Marshall Harlan · William Adair · Louisville and Nashville Railroad | confirmed | |
| 1907-11-02 | Roosevelt Approves U.S. Steel Acquisition of Tennessee Coal & Iron During Panic, Exposing Reform Limits Theodore Roosevelt · J.P. Morgan · Elbert H. Gary · Henry Clay Frick · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1907-07-19 | Roosevelt Justice Department Files Antitrust Suit Against American Tobacco Trust Theodore Roosevelt · U.S. Department of Justice · American Tobacco Company · James Buchanan Duke | confirmed | |
| 1906-06-30 | Roosevelt Signs Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act Theodore Roosevelt · Harvey Washington Wiley · Upton Sinclair · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1906-06-29 | Roosevelt Signs Hepburn Act Creating First True Federal Regulatory Agency Theodore Roosevelt · Representative William Hepburn · Interstate Commerce Commission · Railroad companies · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1906-02-26 | Upton Sinclair Publishes "The Jungle" Exposing Meatpacking Industry Horrors Upton Sinclair · Doubleday · Appeal to Reason | confirmed | |
| 1905-06-27 | Industrial Workers of the World Founded, Challenges AFL Craft Unionism William "Big Bill" Haywood · Eugene V. Debs · Mother Jones · Lucy Parsons · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1905-04-17 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Labor Protections in Lochner v. New York U.S. Supreme Court · Justice Rufus Peckham · Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · Justice John Harlan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1905-01-30 | Supreme Court Rules Against Beef Trust, Establishes Stream of Commerce Doctrine U.S. Supreme Court · Swift & Company · Armour & Company · Theodore Roosevelt · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1904-03-14 | Supreme Court Orders Northern Securities Dissolution in First Major Antitrust Victory U.S. Supreme Court · Theodore Roosevelt · J.P. Morgan · James J. Hill · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1904-01-01 | Lincoln Steffens Publishes "The Shame of the Cities" Exposing Municipal Corruption Lincoln Steffens · McClure's Magazine | confirmed | |
| 1903-10-29 | Anaconda Copper Shuts Down All Montana Operations to Force Legislative Changes Amalgamated Copper Company · Anaconda Copper Mining Company · F. Augustus Heinze · Judge William Clancy · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1903-04-27 | Giles v. Harris: Supreme Court Refuses to Enforce Black Voting Rights Against Alabama Constitution U.S. Supreme Court · Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · Jackson Giles · Alabama Legislature · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1903-02-19 | Roosevelt Signs Elkins Act Prohibiting Railroad Rebates and Price Discrimination Theodore Roosevelt · Senator Stephen B. Elkins · Interstate Commerce Commission · Pennsylvania Railroad · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1903-02-14 | Roosevelt Creates Bureau of Corporations and Department of Commerce and Labor Theodore Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · George B. Cortelyou · James Rudolph Garfield · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1902-11-01 | Ida Tarbell Begins "The History of the Standard Oil Company" in McClure's Magazine Ida Tarbell · McClure's Magazine · Standard Oil Company · John D. Rockefeller | confirmed | |
| 1902-10-03 | Roosevelt Intervenes in Coal Strike as Neutral Arbitrator, Origins of Square Deal Theodore Roosevelt · John Mitchell · J.P. Morgan · Elihu Root · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1902-05-12 | Anthracite Coal Strike Begins in Pennsylvania, 147,000 Miners Walk Out United Mine Workers · John Mitchell · Theodore Roosevelt · Railroad companies · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1902-05-01 | Justice Department Files Antitrust Suit Against Beef Trust Monopoly Theodore Roosevelt · Attorney General Philander Knox · Swift & Company · Armour & Company · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1902-02-19 | Roosevelt Announces Northern Securities Antitrust Suit Against J.P. Morgan Railroad Trust Theodore Roosevelt · Attorney General Philander Knox · J.P. Morgan · James J. Hill · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1902-01-01 | Water Cure Torture Scandal - Senate Investigation Exposes Systematic Abuse Theodore Roosevelt · William Howard Taft · Senate Committee on the Philippines · Anti-imperialist Senators · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1901-09-28 | Balangiga Massacre Triggers Samar Pacification - Scorched Earth Retaliation Jacob H. Smith · Littleton Waller · Adna Chaffee · Theodore Roosevelt · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1901-05-21 | Alabama Constitutional Convention: White Supremacy Constitution Becomes Blueprint for Southern Disenfranchisement John Knox · Alabama Legislature · Democratic Party · Black Belt Planters | confirmed | |
| 1901-03-10 | Carnegie Sells to J.P. Morgan: U.S. Steel Becomes First Billion-Dollar Corporation Andrew Carnegie · J.P. Morgan · U.S. Steel Corporation · Carnegie Steel Corporation | confirmed | |
| 1901-03-02 | Platt Amendment Enacted - Cuba Becomes U.S. Protectorate William McKinley · Orville H. Platt · Elihu Root · Leonard Wood · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1901-03-01 | J.P. Morgan Creates Northern Securities: $400 Million Railroad Monopoly J.P. Morgan · James J. Hill · Edward H. Harriman · Northern Securities Company · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1901-02-26 | U.S. Steel Formation - Morgan Creates First Billion-Dollar Trust J.P. Morgan · Andrew Carnegie · Charles Schwab · Elbert Gary · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1901-02-25 | U.S. Steel Corporation Formed - First Billion-Dollar Corporation in History J.P. Morgan · Andrew Carnegie · Charles Schwab · U.S. Steel Corporation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1900-06-20 | Boxer Rebellion - Eight-Nation Alliance Invasion Enforces Imperial Control Eight-Nation Alliance · William McKinley · John Hay · Edwin Conger · +2 | confirmed |