Decade of record

1900s

The 1900s contain 34 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.

34 events From Jun 20, 1900 To Aug 5, 1909 Open in filter view →
Activity over time Events per year
1900 · 1 event1901 · 7 events1902 · 6 events1903 · 4 events1904 · 2 events1905 · 3 events1906 · 3 events1907 · 2 events1908 · 4 events1909 · 2 events19001909
DateEventLanesStatus
1909-08-05Payne-Aldrich Tariff Betrays Progressive Promises: Taft Praises "Best Tariff Bill," Splits Republican Party
President William Howard Taft · Nelson Aldrich · Progressive Republicans · Old Guard Republicans
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1909-03-04Roosevelt 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
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1908-07-26Bonaparte Creates Bureau of Investigation Inside DOJ, Bypassing Congressional Opposition
Attorney General Charles Bonaparte · President Theodore Roosevelt · Stanley Finch · Department of Justice · +1
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1908-02-24Muller 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
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1908-02-03Supreme 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
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1908-01-27Adair 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
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1907-11-02Roosevelt 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
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1907-07-19Roosevelt Justice Department Files Antitrust Suit Against American Tobacco Trust
Theodore Roosevelt · U.S. Department of Justice · American Tobacco Company · James Buchanan Duke
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1906-06-30Roosevelt Signs Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act
Theodore Roosevelt · Harvey Washington Wiley · Upton Sinclair · U.S. Congress
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1906-06-29Roosevelt Signs Hepburn Act Creating First True Federal Regulatory Agency
Theodore Roosevelt · Representative William Hepburn · Interstate Commerce Commission · Railroad companies · +1
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1906-02-26Upton Sinclair Publishes "The Jungle" Exposing Meatpacking Industry Horrors
Upton Sinclair · Doubleday · Appeal to Reason
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1905-06-27Industrial Workers of the World Founded, Challenges AFL Craft Unionism
William "Big Bill" Haywood · Eugene V. Debs · Mother Jones · Lucy Parsons · +2
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1905-04-17Supreme 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
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1905-01-30Supreme Court Rules Against Beef Trust, Establishes Stream of Commerce Doctrine
U.S. Supreme Court · Swift & Company · Armour & Company · Theodore Roosevelt · +1
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1904-03-14Supreme Court Orders Northern Securities Dissolution in First Major Antitrust Victory
U.S. Supreme Court · Theodore Roosevelt · J.P. Morgan · James J. Hill · +2
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1904-01-01Lincoln Steffens Publishes "The Shame of the Cities" Exposing Municipal Corruption
Lincoln Steffens · McClure's Magazine
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1903-10-29Anaconda Copper Shuts Down All Montana Operations to Force Legislative Changes
Amalgamated Copper Company · Anaconda Copper Mining Company · F. Augustus Heinze · Judge William Clancy · +2
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1903-04-27Giles 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
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1903-02-19Roosevelt Signs Elkins Act Prohibiting Railroad Rebates and Price Discrimination
Theodore Roosevelt · Senator Stephen B. Elkins · Interstate Commerce Commission · Pennsylvania Railroad · +1
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1903-02-14Roosevelt Creates Bureau of Corporations and Department of Commerce and Labor
Theodore Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · George B. Cortelyou · James Rudolph Garfield · +1
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1902-11-01Ida Tarbell Begins "The History of the Standard Oil Company" in McClure's Magazine
Ida Tarbell · McClure's Magazine · Standard Oil Company · John D. Rockefeller
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1902-10-03Roosevelt Intervenes in Coal Strike as Neutral Arbitrator, Origins of Square Deal
Theodore Roosevelt · John Mitchell · J.P. Morgan · Elihu Root · +1
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1902-05-12Anthracite Coal Strike Begins in Pennsylvania, 147,000 Miners Walk Out
United Mine Workers · John Mitchell · Theodore Roosevelt · Railroad companies · +1
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1902-05-01Justice Department Files Antitrust Suit Against Beef Trust Monopoly
Theodore Roosevelt · Attorney General Philander Knox · Swift & Company · Armour & Company · +3
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1902-02-19Roosevelt Announces Northern Securities Antitrust Suit Against J.P. Morgan Railroad Trust
Theodore Roosevelt · Attorney General Philander Knox · J.P. Morgan · James J. Hill · +2
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1902-01-01Water Cure Torture Scandal - Senate Investigation Exposes Systematic Abuse
Theodore Roosevelt · William Howard Taft · Senate Committee on the Philippines · Anti-imperialist Senators · +2
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1901-09-28Balangiga Massacre Triggers Samar Pacification - Scorched Earth Retaliation
Jacob H. Smith · Littleton Waller · Adna Chaffee · Theodore Roosevelt · +2
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1901-05-21Alabama Constitutional Convention: White Supremacy Constitution Becomes Blueprint for Southern Disenfranchisement
John Knox · Alabama Legislature · Democratic Party · Black Belt Planters
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1901-03-10Carnegie 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
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1901-03-02Platt Amendment Enacted - Cuba Becomes U.S. Protectorate
William McKinley · Orville H. Platt · Elihu Root · Leonard Wood · +2
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1901-03-01J.P. Morgan Creates Northern Securities: $400 Million Railroad Monopoly
J.P. Morgan · James J. Hill · Edward H. Harriman · Northern Securities Company · +2
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1901-02-26U.S. Steel Formation - Morgan Creates First Billion-Dollar Trust
J.P. Morgan · Andrew Carnegie · Charles Schwab · Elbert Gary · +1
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1901-02-25U.S. Steel Corporation Formed - First Billion-Dollar Corporation in History
J.P. Morgan · Andrew Carnegie · Charles Schwab · U.S. Steel Corporation · +1
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1900-06-20Boxer Rebellion - Eight-Nation Alliance Invasion Enforces Imperial Control
Eight-Nation Alliance · William McKinley · John Hay · Edwin Conger · +2
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