1910s
The 1910s contain 65 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
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Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1919-11-11 | American Legion Founded with Corporate Backing as Anti-Radical Force Theodore Roosevelt Jr. · Hamilton Fish III · George White · American Legion | confirmed | |
| 1919-11-10 | Abrams v. United States: Holmes Dissents, Articulates 'Marketplace of Ideas' Free Speech Theory Supreme Court of the United States · Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · Justice Louis Brandeis · Jacob Abrams | confirmed | |
| 1919-11-07 | Palmer Raids Begin: Attorney General and J. Edgar Hoover Arrest 6,000 in 36 Cities, Deport 249 on "Soviet Ark" A. Mitchell Palmer · J. Edgar Hoover · U.S. Department of Justice · Emma Goldman · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1919-09-22 | Great Steel Strike Crushed Using Red Scare Propaganda, Palmer Raids American Federation of Labor · United States Steel Corporation · Elbert H. Gary · Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1919-08-01 | Hoover Named to Lead Justice Department Radical Division, Origin of Permanent Political Dossier System J. Edgar Hoover · A. Mitchell Palmer · Department of Justice · General Intelligence Division | confirmed | |
| 1919-07-27 | Red Summer: Chicago Race Riot Erupts as White Mobs Attack Black Neighborhoods, 38 Killed Chicago Police Department · Irish American athletic clubs · Black Great Migration communities · Governor Frank Lowden · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1919-06-04 | Senate Passes 19th Amendment Sending Women's Suffrage to States for Ratification U.S. Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · Woodrow Wilson · National American Woman Suffrage Association · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1919-03-03 | Schenck v. United States: Supreme Court Creates 'Clear and Present Danger' Test, Upholds Espionage Act Convictions Supreme Court of the United States · Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · Charles Schenck · Socialist Party of America | confirmed | |
| 1918-09-14 | Eugene V. Debs Sentenced to Ten Years for Antiwar Speech, Runs for President from Prison Eugene V. Debs · Socialist Party of America · President Woodrow Wilson · Judge David C. Westenhaver | confirmed | |
| 1918-06-03 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Child Labor Law in Hammer v. Dagenhart U.S. Supreme Court · Justice William R. Day · Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | confirmed | |
| 1918-05-16 | Sedition Act of 1918 Expands Espionage Act to Criminalize Anti-Government Speech U.S. Congress · President Woodrow Wilson · U.S. Postmaster General | confirmed | |
| 1918-01-09 | Wilson Reverses Position and Endorses Women's Suffrage Amendment After Prison Brutality Exposed Woodrow Wilson · Alice Paul · National Woman's Party · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1917-12-10 | Hitchman Coal v. Mitchell: Supreme Court Authorizes Injunctions to Enforce Yellow-Dog Contracts Supreme Court of the United States · Justice Mahlon Pitney · United Mine Workers of America · Hitchman Coal and Coke Company | confirmed | |
| 1917-11-14 | Night of Terror as 33 Suffragists Brutalized at Occoquan Workhouse by Prison Guards Lucy Burns · Dora Lewis · Alice Cosu · W. H. Whittaker · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1917-11-05 | Buchanan v. Warley: Supreme Court Strikes Down Racial Zoning, Property Rights Trump Civil Rights Supreme Court of the United States · NAACP · Moorfield Storey · Louisville, Kentucky | confirmed | |
| 1917-08-01 | Frank Little Lynched: IWW Executive Board Member Murdered by Vigilantes in Butte Frank Little · Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · Anaconda Copper Mining Company · Butte vigilantes | confirmed | |
| 1917-07-28 | War Industries Board Established: Bernard Baruch and "Dollar-a-Year Men" Institutionalize Corporate-Government Fusion Bernard Baruch · President Woodrow Wilson · U.S. War Department · Navy Department | confirmed | |
| 1917-07-12 | Bisbee Deportation: Phelps Dodge and Vigilantes Illegally Deport 1,300 Striking Miners Phelps Dodge Corporation · Walter Douglas · Sheriff Harry Wheeler · Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1917-06-22 | First Suffragist Arrests Begin for White House Picketing as State Repression Escalates Alice Paul · Lucy Burns · National Woman's Party · Woodrow Wilson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1917-06-15 | Espionage Act Signed: Wilson Criminalizes Antiwar Speech, Targets IWW Labor Organizers and Socialists President Woodrow Wilson · Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · Eugene V. Debs · Victor L. Berger · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1917-06-15 | Wilson-Era Wartime Executive Architecture: Espionage Act, War Powers Statutes Build Permanent Emergency-Authority Template Woodrow Wilson · Bernard Baruch · Herbert Hoover · William McAdoo · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1917-06-08 | Speculator Mine Fire Kills 168 Workers: Anaconda Safety Failures Trigger Butte Strike and Repression Anaconda Copper Mining Company · Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · Metal Mine Workers' Union · Montana National Guard | confirmed | |
| 1917-04-20 | Justice Department Authorizes American Protective League, 250,000-Member Vigilante Surveillance Network Thomas Gregory · A. M. Briggs · Bureau of Investigation · American Protective League · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1917-04-13 | Committee on Public Information Created: Wilson Establishes Federal Propaganda Machine President Woodrow Wilson · George Creel · Secretary of State Robert Lansing · Secretary of War Newton Baker · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1917-01-16 | British Intercept Zimmermann Telegram, Demonstrating Value of Signals Intelligence to U.S. Policy Arthur Zimmermann · British Admiralty Room 40 · Woodrow Wilson · Walter Hines Page · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1917-01-10 | National Woman's Party Begins Historic White House Picketing as Silent Sentinels Alice Paul · Lucy Burns · National Woman's Party · Woodrow Wilson | confirmed | |
| 1916-11-14 | Inez Milholland Dies During Western Suffrage Tour Becoming Martyr for the Cause Inez Milholland · National Woman's Party · Alice Paul | confirmed | |
| 1916-11-05 | Everett Massacre: Lumber Company Vigilantes Kill IWW Members at City Dock Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · Everett Commercial Club · Sheriff Donald McRae · Weyerhaeuser Company | confirmed | |
| 1916-09-03 | Adamson Act Establishes Eight-Hour Workday for Railroad Workers President Woodrow Wilson · Representative William C. Adamson · Railroad Labor Brotherhoods · Austin B. Garretson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1916-09-01 | Keating-Owen Child Labor Act Passed, First Federal Child Labor Restriction U.S. Congress · President Woodrow Wilson | confirmed | |
| 1916-07-30 | German Sabotage Destroys Black Tom Munitions Depot, Exposes U.S. Counterintelligence Vacuum German Imperial Government · Franz von Papen · Franz von Rintelen · Bureau of Investigation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1916-01-01 | Corporate Interests Mobilize Systematic Opposition to Women's Suffrage to Protect Profits Liquor Industry · Textile Manufacturers · Railroad companies · National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage | confirmed | |
| 1915-11-25 | KKK Revived at Stone Mountain Cross Burning: Simmons Coordinates with Birth of a Nation Premiere William J. Simmons · Ku Klux Klan · D.W. Griffith | confirmed | |
| 1915-08-17 | Leo Frank Lynched by Antisemitic Mob After Governor Commutes Sentence: Only Jewish Lynching in U.S. History Leo Frank · William J. Simmons · Knights of Mary Phagan · Georgia Governor | confirmed | |
| 1915-06-21 | Guinn v. United States: Supreme Court Strikes Down Grandfather Clauses as Fifteenth Amendment Violation U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice Edward White · Oklahoma Legislature · NAACP | confirmed | |
| 1915-05-07 | Lusitania Sunk by German U-Boat with 173 Tons of Munitions Aboard: 1,200 Dead, Morgan Profiteering Exposed RMS Lusitania · German Navy · British Government · JP Morgan & Co. · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1915-02-08 | Birth of a Nation Premieres in Los Angeles: Groundbreaking Film Glorifies KKK, Depicts Black Americans as Evil D.W. Griffith · Woodrow Wilson · William J. Simmons · Ku Klux Klan | confirmed | |
| 1915-01-25 | Rockefeller Testifies Before Walsh Commission: Three Days of Public Humiliation Over Ludlow Massacre John D. Rockefeller Jr. · Frank Walsh · Commission on Industrial Relations · Colorado Fuel and Iron Company | confirmed | |
| 1914-10-15 | Clayton Antitrust Act Signed: Labor Unions Exempted from Antitrust Laws, Gompers Calls It Labor's Magna Carta President Woodrow Wilson · Henry De Lamar Clayton Jr. · Samuel Gompers · American Federation of Labor · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1914-09-26 | Wilson Signs Federal Trade Commission Act, Creating Expert Antitrust Enforcement Agency Woodrow Wilson · Federal Trade Commission · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1914-08-01 | JP Morgan Becomes Allied War Financier: $3 Billion in Loans and Munitions Contracts, Abandons Neutrality for Profit JP Morgan & Co. · British Government · French government · Thomas Lamont · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1914-04-20 | Ludlow Massacre - National Guard Attacks Striking Miners, Kills 21 Including Women and Children Colorado National Guard · Colorado Fuel and Iron Company · United Mine Workers of America · John D. Rockefeller Jr. · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1913-12-23 | Federal Reserve Act Creates Central Banking System: Wilson Signs Compromise Between Private Bank Control and Government Oversight President Woodrow Wilson · Carter Glass · Robert Latham Owen · JP Morgan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1913-10-03 | Underwood Tariff Slashes Corporate Protection, Establishes Modern Income Tax After 16th Amendment President Woodrow Wilson · Oscar Underwood · Democratic Party | confirmed | |
| 1913-08-03 | Wheatland Hop Riot: IWW Farmworkers Protest Conditions, Deputies Kill Four, Leaders Framed Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · Blackie Ford · Herman Suhr · Ralph Durst · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1913-04-11 | Wilson Administration Segregates Federal Government: Jim Crow Comes to Washington President Woodrow Wilson · Postmaster General Albert Burleson · Treasury Secretary William McAdoo · NAACP · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1913-04-08 | 17th Amendment Ratified: Direct Election of Senators Ends State Legislature Appointments and Deadlock Corruption Connecticut State Legislature · U.S. Congress · Progressive Movement | confirmed | |
| 1913-04-01 | JP Morgan Dies in Rome: House of Morgan Partners Blame Pujo Committee Testimony Stress JP Morgan · Pujo Committee · Samuel Untermyer · House of Morgan | confirmed | |
| 1913-03-03 | Women's Suffrage Parade in Washington Attacked by Hostile Crowds as Police Stand By Alice Paul · Lucy Burns · Inez Milholland · Ida B. Wells · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1913-02-25 | Paterson Silk Strike: IWW Leads 25,000 Workers in Five-Month Struggle Against Textile Manufacturers Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · Big Bill Haywood · Elizabeth Gurley Flynn · Carlo Tresca · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1913-02-03 | 16th Amendment Ratified: Federal Income Tax Established to Shift Burden from Middle Class to Wealthy Delaware State Legislature · Philander C. Knox · U.S. Congress · Progressive Movement | confirmed | |
| 1912-11-05 | Montana Voters Pass Corrupt Practices Act Banning Corporate Political Spending Montana voters · William A. Clark · F. Augustus Heinze · Marcus Daly · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1912-08-07 | Theodore Roosevelt Forms Bull Moose Party After GOP Convention Theft: Republican Split Ensures Wilson Victory Theodore Roosevelt · William Howard Taft · Woodrow Wilson · Progressive Party · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1912-06-13 | DuPont Powder Trust Ordered Dissolved, But Family Control and Geographic Proximity Limit Effectiveness U.S. District Court for Delaware · E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company · DuPont family · Hercules Powder Company · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1912-05-16 | Pujo Committee Hearings Begin: Money Trust Investigation Exposes JP Morgan Control of $22 Billion Through 341 Interlocking Directorships Arsène Pujo · Samuel Untermyer · JP Morgan · George F. Baker · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1912-04-18 | Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Mine War: West Virginia Declares Martial Law, Mother Jones Imprisoned United Mine Workers of America · Mary Harris Jones · Governor William Glasscock · Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1912-01-12 | Lawrence "Bread and Roses" Strike: IWW Unites 20,000 Workers Across 51 Nationalities, Wins 15% Raise Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · Joseph Ettor · Arturo Giovannitti · American Woolen Company | confirmed | |
| 1911-05-29 | Supreme Court Orders American Tobacco Breakup, Applying Rule of Reason to Tobacco Trust U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice Edward White · American Tobacco Company · James Duke | confirmed | |
| 1911-05-15 | Standard Oil Breakup's Paradox - Rockefeller's Wealth Triples as Fragmented Companies Reconsolidate John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 1911-05-15 | Supreme Court Orders Standard Oil Breakup in Landmark Antitrust Decision U.S. Supreme Court · John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · Chief Justice Edward White | confirmed | |
| 1911-03-25 | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Kills 146, Exposes Corporate Negligence Triangle Waist Company · New York Factory Investigating Commission · Frances Perkins · International Ladies Garment Workers Union | confirmed | |
| 1911-02-24 | Buck's Stove Case: Gompers, Mitchell, Morrison Sentenced for Contempt, Boycotts Criminalized Samuel Gompers · John Mitchell · Frank Morrison · American Federation of Labor · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1911-01-16 | Aldrich Plan for Banking Reform Submitted: Secret Jekyll Island Meeting Proposes Wall Street-Controlled Central Bank Nelson Aldrich · JP Morgan interests · Paul Warburg · Frank Vanderlip · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1910-06-18 | Mann-Elkins Act Strengthens Railroad Regulation, Expands ICC Authority to Telecommunications President William Howard Taft · Stephen Benton Elkins · James Robert Mann · Interstate Commerce Commission | confirmed | |
| 1910-03-19 | Insurgent Republicans Revolt Against Speaker Cannon: 29-Hour Session Strips Autocratic Powers, Splits GOP Joseph Cannon · George William Norris · President William Howard Taft · Progressive Republicans | confirmed |