| 1874-01-20 | Congress Repeals Salary Grab Act After Public Outrage Over Corruption U.S. Congress · Ulysses S. Grant · Elihu Washburne | 3 |
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| 1873-11-19 | Boss Tweed Convicted After Second Trial William "Boss" Tweed · New York Court System · David Dudley Field II (Defense) · +1 | 4 |
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| 1873-09-18 | Panic of 1873: Railroad Speculation Triggers Economic Collapse Jay Cooke & Company · Northern Pacific Railroad · New York Stock Exchange · +1 | 4 | |
| 1873-04-14 | Slaughterhouse Cases Gut Fourteenth Amendment Protections U.S. Supreme Court · Louisiana Legislature · Crescent City Livestock Company · +1 | 4 |
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| 1873-04-13 | Colfax Massacre: 150 Black Americans Murdered to Overthrow Local Government White Supremacist Militia · Ku Klux Klan · Knights of White Camellia · +1 | 4 |
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| 1873-01-06 | House Launches Credit Mobilier Investigation U.S. House of Representatives · Oakes Ames · James Brooks (Congressman) · +1 | 4 |
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| 1872-11-05 | Susan B. Anthony Arrested for Voting in Presidential Election Tests 14th Amendment Susan B. Anthony · Ward Hunt · John Van Voorhis · +2 | 5 | |
| 1872-09-04 | Credit Mobilier Scandal: The Birth of the Gilded Age Oakes Ames · Schuyler Colfax · Union Pacific Railroad · +2 | 5 |
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| 1872-02-17 | Cleveland Massacre - Rockefeller Consolidates Oil Refining Monopoly in Six Weeks John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · Henry Flagler · +1 | 4 | |
| 1871-10-21 | Thomas Nast Cartoon Depicts Tweed as Money Bag Thomas Nast · Harper's Weekly · William "Boss" Tweed · +1 | 4 | |
| 1871-07-08 | New York Times Exposes Tweed Ring with Stolen Records New York Times · George Jones (Publisher) · William "Boss" Tweed · +1 | 4 | |
| 1871-04-20 | Ku Klux Klan Act Authorizes Federal Suppression of Terrorist Violence Ulysses S. Grant · 42nd United States Congress · Amos Akerman · +1 | 4 |
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| 1870-01-10 | Standard Oil Company Incorporated in Ohio by John D. Rockefeller John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · Henry Flagler · +2 | 5 | |
| 1869-12-10 | Wyoming Territory Becomes First in U.S. to Grant Women Full Voting Rights Wyoming Territorial Legislature · Esther Hobart Morris · William Bright · +1 | 4 | |
| 1869-09-24 | Black Friday - Gould and Fisk Gold Corner Attempt Triggers Financial Panic Jay Gould · James Fisk · President Ulysses S. Grant · +2 | 5 | |
| 1869-05-15 | Suffrage Movement Splits Over 15th Amendment as Stanton and Anthony Deploy Racist Rhetoric Susan B. Anthony · Elizabeth Cady Stanton · Lucy Stone · +4 | 7 | |
| 1868-07-09 | Fourteenth Amendment Ratified: Corporate Hijacking Begins U.S. Congress · Louisiana Legislature · South Carolina Legislature · +1 | 4 |
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| 1868-04-29 | Fort Laramie Treaty Guarantees Black Hills to Sioux in Perpetuity - Later Violated for Gold Rush Sioux Nation · U.S. government · Lakota people · +1 | 4 |
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| 1868-03-04 | Erie War Escalates - Gould and Fisk Flee to Jersey with $7 Million in Watered Stock Jay Gould · James Fisk · Daniel Drew · +4 | 7 | |
| 1868-02-24 | Andrew Johnson Impeached for Obstructing Reconstruction Andrew Johnson · Edwin Stanton · U.S. House of Representatives · +3 | 6 |
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| 1867-01-01 | Vanderbilt Consolidates New York Central Railroad - Creates First Giant Railroad System Cornelius Vanderbilt · New York Central Railroad · Hudson River Railroad · +1 | 4 | |
| 1866-02-19 | Johnson Vetoes Freedmen's Bureau Expansion, Sabotaging Reconstruction Andrew Johnson · Lyman Trumbull · Republican Congress · +1 | 4 |
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| 1866-01-01 | Alabama Initiates Convict Leasing: Slavery by Another Name Robert Patton (Alabama Governor) · Alabama State Legislature · Coal Mining Companies · +1 | 4 |
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| 1865-12-24 | Ku Klux Klan Founded as Terrorist Organization to Restore White Supremacy Nathan Bedford Forrest · Confederate Veterans · Calvin E. Jones · +5 | 8 | |
| 1865-11-24 | Mississippi Enacts First Black Codes: Blueprint for Convict Leasing Mississippi State Legislature · Governor William L. Sharkey · Southern planters | 3 |
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| 1865-05-29 | Andrew Johnson Begins Mass Pardons of Confederate Leaders Andrew Johnson · Confederate Leaders · Republican Congress | 3 |
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| 1865-04-14 | John Wilkes Booth Assassinates Lincoln in Coordinated Conspiracy to Decapitate Union Government After Confederate Defeat John Wilkes Booth · Abraham Lincoln · Lewis Powell · +5 | 8 | |
| 1864-11-29 | Sand Creek Massacre - Colorado Militia Slaughters 150 Peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Under Protection Flag Colonel John Chivington · Third Colorado Cavalry · Black Kettle (Cheyenne Chief) · +3 | 6 |
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| 1864-11-08 | Copperheads Attempt Election Manipulation Through Peace Platform and Confederate Conspiracy While Deploying Racist Propaganda Abraham Lincoln · George B. McClellan · Clement Vallandigham · +3 | 6 | |
| 1863-07-13 | New York Draft Riots Explode Over Class-Based Conscription System Enabling Wealthy to Buy Exemptions While Poor Fight Irish Americans · Black New Yorkers · Democratic Party · +1 | 4 | |
| 1863-03-02 | Congress Passes False Claims Act Allowing Citizens to Sue War Profiteers After Contractor Fraud Crisis Abraham Lincoln · U.S. Congress · War profiteers | 3 | |
| 1863-01-15 | Treasury Department Cotton Permit System Enables Massive Corruption as Officials Trade with Enemy for Personal Profit U.S. Treasury Department · Charles Dana · Abraham Lincoln · +3 | 6 |
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| 1863-01-01 | Emancipation Proclamation Faces Violent Northern Resistance from Democrats and White Supremacists Fearing Labor Competition Abraham Lincoln · Northern Democrats · Copperheads · +2 | 5 | |
| 1862-07-01 | Pacific Railway Act Creates Land Grant System Enabling Massive Railroad Speculation and Corruption Abraham Lincoln · U.S. Congress · Union Pacific Railroad · +3 | 6 | |
| 1862-05-01 | General Benjamin Butler's New Orleans Occupation Marked by Systematic Corruption and Cotton Trade Profiteering Benjamin F. Butler · Andrew Butler · David G. Farragut · +1 | 4 | |
| 1862-02-25 | Legal Tender Act Creates Unbacked Greenback Currency Enabling Speculation and Inflation Despite Constitutional Questions U.S. Congress · Abraham Lincoln · Edmund Dick Taylor · +1 | 4 | |
| 1862-01-13 | Lincoln's Secretary of War Simon Cameron Resigns Amid Procurement Corruption and Contract Fraud Enabling Profiteering Simon Cameron · Abraham Lincoln · Edwin M. Stanton · +2 | 5 |
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| 1861-04-21 | Pinkerton Heads Union Intelligence Service for McClellan, First Federal Use of Private Intelligence Personnel Allan Pinkerton · George B. McClellan · Pinkerton National Detective Agency · +2 | 5 | |
| 1861-04-12 | Confederate Bombardment of Fort Sumter Begins Civil War and Triggers Massive War Profiteering Industry Confederate States of America · Jefferson Davis · Robert Anderson · +2 | 5 | |
| 1861-01-01 | Civil War Contractors Defraud Government with Defective Weapons and Shoddy Goods Costing Lives and Millions U.S. War Department · Union Army · War contractors · +1 | 4 |
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| 1860-12-20 | South Carolina Secession Launches Confederate States Formation to Preserve Slavery as Explicit Constitutional Foundation Jefferson Davis · Alexander Stephens · South Carolina · +2 | 5 | |
| 1860-04-23 | Democratic Party Convention Split Over Slavery Platform Fractures Last National Institution Binding North and South Stephen A. Douglas · William Yancey · John C. Breckinridge · +3 | 6 | |
| 1859-10-16 | John Brown's Harpers Ferry Raid Exposes Slave Power's Armed Defense of Institutional Capture John Brown · Robert E. Lee · James Buchanan · +2 | 5 | |
| 1858-08-21 | Lincoln-Douglas Debates Expose Popular Sovereignty as Slavery Expansion Vehicle Abraham Lincoln · Stephen A. Douglas · Republican Party · +1 | 4 | |
| 1858-01-04 | Kansas Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Lecompton Constitution Despite Buchanan Bribery James Buchanan · Stephen A. Douglas · Kansas voters · +1 | 4 | |
| 1857-11-07 | Lecompton Constitution Referendum Demonstrates Electoral Fraud in Service of Slavery Expansion James Buchanan · Stephen A. Douglas · Pro-slavery delegates · +2 | 5 | |
| 1857-03-06 | Dred Scott Decision Demonstrates Supreme Court Capture by Slave Power Through Political Collusion Roger B. Taney · James Buchanan · John Catron · +3 | 6 | |
| 1856-05-24 | Pottawatomie Massacre Escalates Bleeding Kansas Violence, 29 Dead in Three Months John Brown · Pottawatomie Rifles · Pro-slavery settlers · +1 | 4 | |
| 1856-05-22 | Preston Brooks Beats Charles Sumner on Senate Floor, Southern Elite Celebrates Violence Preston Brooks · Charles Sumner · Andrew Butler · +2 | 5 | |
| 1855-03-30 | Border Ruffians Steal Kansas Election Through Systematic Fraud and Violence David Rice Atchison · Border Ruffians · Franklin Pierce · +1 | 4 | |
| 1854-05-30 | Kansas-Nebraska Act Repeals Missouri Compromise, Triggering Violent Territorial Conflict Stephen A. Douglas · Franklin Pierce · U.S. Congress · +2 | 5 | |
| 1853-03-04 | Pierce Inauguration Falsely Claims Slavery Question Settled While Planning Expansion Franklin Pierce · Stephen A. Douglas · Democratic Party · +1 | 4 | |
| 1852-11-02 | Pierce Elected in Slave Power Landslide as Whig Party Collapses Over Slavery Franklin Pierce · Winfield Scott · Democratic Party · +1 | 4 | |
| 1851-05-29 | Sojourner Truth Speech at Akron Women's Rights Convention Exposes Intersection of Racism and Sexism Sojourner Truth · Frances Dana Gage · Marius Robinson | 3 | |
| 1851-03-03 | California Land Act of 1851 Enables Systematic Legal Theft from Mexican Land Grant Holders William M. Gwin · U.S. Congress · Board of Land Commissioners · +3 | 6 | |
| 1850-09-18 | Fugitive Slave Act Transforms Federal Government into Kidnapping Apparatus for Slaveholders U.S. Congress · Millard Fillmore · Federal commissioners · +3 | 6 | |
| 1850-08-22 | Allan Pinkerton Founds North-Western Police Agency, Precursor to Private Intelligence State Allan Pinkerton · Edward Rucker · Pinkerton National Detective Agency · +1 | 4 |
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| 1850-04-22 | California Legislature Begins Funding State Militia Expeditions for Indigenous Genocide California State Legislature · California governors · State militia · +2 | 5 | |
| 1849-01-24 | California Gold Rush Enables Massive Land Speculation Fraud and Corruption Schemes Palmer (San Francisco banker) · Pio Pico · Peralta family · +1 | 4 | |
| 1848-11-07 | Free Soil Party Splits Democratic Vote, Demonstrating Slavery's Destruction of Party Unity Martin Van Buren · Free Soil Party · Democratic Party · +3 | 6 | |
| 1848-07-19 | Seneca Falls Convention Launches Women's Rights Movement with Declaration of Sentiments Elizabeth Cady Stanton · Lucretia Mott · Frederick Douglass · +3 | 6 | |
| 1848-02-02 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Promises Land Rights Then Enables Systematic Theft from Mexican Americans U.S. Senate · Mexico · Mexican Americans · +2 | 5 | |
| 1848-01-24 | California Gold Rush Triggers Genocide, Lawlessness, and Massive Land Fraud California settlers · Mexican land grant holders · Indigenous Californians · +2 | 5 | |
| 1847-01-04 | Samuel Colt Rescues Failing Gun Company with Mexican War Government Contract Samuel Colt · Samuel Walker · U.S. government · +1 | 4 | |
| 1846-08-08 | Wilmot Proviso Triggers Sectional Crisis Over Slavery in Conquered Mexican Territory David Wilmot · James K. Polk · U.S. House of Representatives · +3 | 6 | |
| 1846-05-13 | Mexican-American War Begins as Deliberate Land Grab for Slavery Expansion James K. Polk · U.S. Congress · Mexico · +2 | 5 | |
| 1846-05-11 | Polk Deceives Congress into War Declaration with False American Blood Claims James K. Polk · Zachary Taylor · U.S. Congress · +2 | 5 | |
| 1845-03-01 | Texas Annexed as Slave State Despite Nine Years of Antislavery Opposition James K. Polk · John Tyler · John C. Calhoun · +3 | 6 | |
| 1845-01-01 | Manifest Destiny Ideology Provides Racist Justification for Territorial Conquest and Indigenous Genocide John L. O'Sullivan · James K. Polk · U.S. government · +2 | 5 | |
| 1844-03-01 | Tyler Administration Conducts Secret Texas Annexation Negotiations to Expand Slavery John Tyler · Abel P. Upshur · John C. Calhoun · +1 | 4 | |
| 1843-10-16 | Tyler Begins Secret Texas Annexation Talks to Strengthen Slave Power John Tyler · Abel P. Upshur · Isaac Van Zandt · +1 | 4 | |
| 1842-03-01 | Prigg v Pennsylvania Supreme Court Ruling Protects Slave Catchers and Enables Kidnapping U.S. Supreme Court · Justice Joseph Story · Justice John McLean · +3 | 6 |
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| 1841-09-13 | Whigs Expel Tyler After Bank Vetoes Reveal States' Rights Corruption Agenda John Tyler · Henry Clay · Whig Party · +1 | 4 | |
| 1840-11-02 | Log Cabin Campaign Uses Image Manipulation and Corruption Attacks to Defeat Van Buren William Henry Harrison · Martin Van Buren · Whig Party · +1 | 4 | |
| 1839-07-02 | Amistad Captives Revolt and Win Freedom in Supreme Court, Exposing Slavery's Illegality Joseph Cinqué · Amistad captives · John Quincy Adams · +2 | 5 | |
| 1838-11-01 | Swartwout Embezzles $1.2 Million, Exposing Spoils System Corruption Samuel Swartwout · Andrew Jackson · Martin Van Buren · +1 | 4 | |
| 1838-05-26 | Trail of Tears Forced Removal Begins as 7,000 Troops Round Up 16,000 Cherokee at Gunpoint Martin Van Buren · Winfield Scott · Cherokee Nation · +3 | 6 | |
| 1837-11-07 | Abolitionist Editor Elijah Lovejoy Murdered by Pro-Slavery Mob; No Prosecutions Follow Elijah Parish Lovejoy · Pro-slavery mob · Alton, Illinois authorities · +3 | 6 | |
| 1837-05-10 | Panic of 1837 Begins as Banks Refuse Specie Conversion, Triggering Five-Year Depression Martin Van Buren · Andrew Jackson · New York banks · +2 | 5 | |
| 1836-07-11 | Jackson Issues Specie Circular Requiring Hard Money for Land Purchases, Triggering Credit Contraction Andrew Jackson · Levi Woodbury · Martin Van Buren · +2 | 5 | |
| 1836-05-26 | House Gag Rule Suppresses Antislavery Petitions, Demonstrating Slave Power's Congressional Capture Henry L. Pinckney · John Quincy Adams · U.S. House of Representatives · +2 | 5 | |
| 1836-01-01 | Courts Prosecute Labor Unions as Criminal Conspiracies in 17 Cases Since 1806, Criminalizing Worker Organization State courts · Labor unions · Employers · +1 | 4 | |
| 1835-12-29 | Treaty of New Echota Signed by Unauthorized Cherokee Minority Provides Legal Pretext for Forced Removal Cherokee Nation · John Ross · Treaty Party · +3 | 6 | |
| 1835-06-01 | Philadelphia General Strike Wins Ten-Hour Workday for 17 Trades Despite Court Hostility to Labor Organizing Philadelphia workers · Philadelphia City Council · Seventeen trade unions · +1 | 4 | |
| 1834-03-28 | Senate Censures Jackson for Pet Banks Scheme and Constitutional Overreach Andrew Jackson · Henry Clay · Roger Taney · +2 | 5 | |
| 1833-10-01 | Nicholas Biddle Deliberately Contracts Credit to Create "Biddle's Panic" and Force Bank Recharter Nicholas Biddle · Second Bank of the United States · Andrew Jackson · +4 | 7 | |
| 1833-09-26 | Jackson Removes Federal Deposits to "Pet Banks" Selected Through Political Patronage, Not Financial Merit Andrew Jackson · Roger Taney · Louis McLane · +3 | 6 | |
| 1832-11-24 | South Carolina Nullification Crisis Previews Slave Power Secession Tactics John C. Calhoun · Andrew Jackson · South Carolina · +2 | 5 | |
| 1832-07-10 | Jackson Vetoes Second Bank Recharter, Triggering Financial Manipulation by Both Sides Andrew Jackson · Nicholas Biddle · Henry Clay · +2 | 5 | |
| 1832-03-03 | Supreme Court Rules Georgia Cannot Seize Cherokee Lands; Jackson Refuses to Enforce Decision John Marshall · Andrew Jackson · Samuel Worcester · +3 | 6 | |
| 1831-08-21 | Nat Turner Rebellion Triggers Brutal Repression and Tightening of Slave Codes Across the South Nat Turner · Virginia Legislature · Southern state governments · +2 | 5 | |
| 1830-05-28 | Indian Removal Act Authorizes Ethnic Cleansing to Benefit Land Speculators and Slaveholders Andrew Jackson · U.S. Congress · Cherokee Nation · +3 | 6 | |
| 1829-03-04 | Andrew Jackson Inaugurates Spoils System, Replacing Merit with Political Loyalty Andrew Jackson · Martin Van Buren · William Marcy · +1 | 4 | |
| 1828-05-19 | Tariff of Abominations Imposes 45% Import Taxes, Triggering Nullification Crisis and Sectional Conflict U.S. Congress · John C. Calhoun · Andrew Jackson · +2 | 5 | |
| 1826-01-01 | Jefferson Denounces Corrupt Bargain as Betrayal of Democratic Principles Thomas Jefferson · Andrew Jackson · Democratic-Republican Party · +1 | 4 | |
| 1825-02-09 | Corrupt Bargain Elevates Adams to Presidency Through House Backroom Deal John Quincy Adams · Henry Clay · Andrew Jackson · +2 | 5 | |
| 1824-02-09 | House Elects John Quincy Adams in "Corrupt Bargain" After Clay Throws Support, Ending Era of Good Feelings John Quincy Adams · Henry Clay · Andrew Jackson · +2 | 5 | |
| 1823-12-02 | Monroe Doctrine Proclaimed, Establishing Imperial Paradox of Anti-Colonial Rhetoric Masking U.S. Expansion President James Monroe · Secretary of State John Quincy Adams · European colonial powers | 3 | |
| 1822-07-02 | Denmark Vesey Plans Massive Charleston Slave Rebellion, Exposing Institutional Terror Denmark Vesey · African Methodist Episcopal Church · Charleston authorities · +1 | 4 | |
| 1821-08-10 | Missouri Compromise Finalizes Slave State Expansion After Racial Exclusion Crisis U.S. Congress · James Monroe · Henry Clay · +2 | 5 | |