| 1820-03-03 | Missouri Compromise Institutionalizes Slavery Expansion Through Sectional Bargaining Henry Clay · James Monroe · U.S. Congress · +1 | 4 | |
| 1819-03-06 | McCulloch v. Maryland Establishes Federal Supremacy and Implied Powers, Protecting Second Bank from State Accountability Chief Justice John Marshall · U.S. Supreme Court · Second Bank of the United States · +2 | 5 | |
| 1819-03-03 | Civilization Fund Act Authorizes Federal Funding for Indigenous Assimilation Schools, Laying Groundwork for Boarding School System U.S. Congress · President James Monroe · Bureau of Indian Affairs · +3 | 6 |
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| 1819-02-22 | Adams-Onís Treaty Acquires Florida Through Coerced Spanish Cession After Jackson's Unauthorized Invasion Secretary of State John Quincy Adams · Spanish Minister Luis de Onís · President James Monroe · +1 | 4 | |
| 1819-01-01 | Panic of 1819 Erupts from Second Bank Speculation and Baltimore Branch Fraud Second Bank of the United States · William Jones · Langdon Cheves · +1 | 4 | |
| 1818-08-01 | National Road Reaches Wheeling, Demonstrating Federal Infrastructure Capability Despite Constitutional Debates U.S. Congress · Thomas Jefferson · George Washington · +1 | 4 | |
| 1817-11-21 | First Seminole War Begins as Jackson Invades Spanish Florida to Recapture Enslaved People General Andrew Jackson · Seminole Nation · Black Seminoles · +2 | 5 | |
| 1817-03-04 | Era of Good Feelings Begins with Monroe Presidency, Masking Corruption as "Era of Good Stealings" President James Monroe · Democratic-Republican Party · Federalist Party remnants | 3 | |
| 1817-03-03 | Madison Vetoes Bonus Bill for Internal Improvements on Constitutional Grounds, Setting Precedent Against Federal Infrastructure President James Madison · John C. Calhoun · Henry Clay · +1 | 4 | |
| 1816-04-27 | Tariff of 1816 Establishes Protectionism as Core of American System Economic Policy Henry Clay · U.S. Congress · Northern manufacturers · +1 | 4 | |
| 1816-04-10 | Second Bank of the United States Chartered, Immediately Plagued by Speculation and Fraud President James Madison · U.S. Congress · Second Bank of the United States · +1 | 4 | |
| 1814-12-15 | Hartford Convention Federalist Secession Threat Establishes Nullification Precedent New England Federalists · Harrison Gray Otis · Massachusetts delegates · +2 | 5 | |
| 1813-07-01 | General James Wilkinson Commands War of 1812 Campaigns While Taking Contractor Kickbacks and Spanish Bribes General James Wilkinson · Spanish Empire · U.S. Army contractors · +1 | 4 | |
| 1812-06-18 | War of 1812 Declared, Enabling Widespread Profiteering and Contractor Fraud President James Madison · U.S. Congress · British Empire · +1 | 4 | |
| 1810-03-16 | Fletcher v. Peck Establishes Judicial Protection for Fraudulent Contracts and Corrupt Land Deals Chief Justice John Marshall · U.S. Supreme Court · John Peck · +2 | 5 | |
| 1808-01-01 | Domestic Slave Trade Explodes After Import Ban, Creating Second Middle Passage Slave traders · Upper South planters · Deep South cotton planters · +1 | 4 | |
| 1807-12-22 | Embargo Act Demonstrates Economic Warfare Against Domestic Political Opposition President Thomas Jefferson · U.S. Congress · New England merchants · +1 | 4 | |
| 1807-03-02 | Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves Signed After Constitutional 20-Year Protection Expires Thomas Jefferson · U.S. Congress · Joseph Bradley Varnum | 3 | |
| 1806-11-27 | Burr Conspiracy and Acquittal Establishes Elite Immunity from Treason Prosecution Aaron Burr · General James Wilkinson · President Thomas Jefferson · +1 | 4 | |
| 1804-07-11 | Hamilton-Burr Duel Demonstrates Elite Violence and Honor Culture Replacing Law Aaron Burr · Alexander Hamilton · Federalist Party · +1 | 4 | |
| 1803-10-20 | Louisiana Purchase Demonstrates Jefferson Constitutional Hypocrisy and Executive Power Expansion President Thomas Jefferson · Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin · U.S. Senate · +2 | 5 | |
| 1803-02-24 | Marbury v. Madison Establishes Judicial Review and Supreme Court Power Expansion Chief Justice John Marshall · William Marbury · Secretary of State James Madison · +1 | 4 | |
| 1801-02-13 | Midnight Judges Act Enables Lame-Duck Court Packing by Defeated Federalists President John Adams · Federalist Party · U.S. Senate · +1 | 4 | |
| 1800-12-03 | Thomas Jefferson Wins Presidency Through Three-Fifths Compromise Electoral Advantage Thomas Jefferson · John Adams · Virginia slaveholders · +1 | 4 | |
| 1800-08-30 | Gabriel's Rebellion Plans Massive Slave Uprising in Virginia, Exposing System's Fragility Gabriel · James Monroe · Virginia militia · +1 | 4 | |
| 1798-07-14 | Alien and Sedition Acts Criminalize Political Dissent and Democratic Opposition President John Adams · Federalist Party · Secretary of State Timothy Pickering · +2 | 5 | |
| 1798-07-07 | Quasi-War Enables Military-Industrial Expansion and Permanent Navy Establishment President John Adams · Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert · U.S. Congress · +2 | 5 | |
| 1797-10-18 | XYZ Affair Exposes French Diplomatic Bribery Demands and Triggers Quasi-War Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord · Charles Cotesworth Pinckney · John Marshall · +2 | 5 |
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| 1795-01-07 | Yazoo Land Fraud Represents Largest Corruption Scandal of Early Republic Georgia Legislature · Governor George Mathews · Senator James Gunn · +1 | 4 | |
| 1794-08-07 | Whiskey Rebellion Establishes Federal Power to Suppress Domestic Dissent with Military Force George Washington · Alexander Hamilton · Western Pennsylvania farmers · +1 | 4 | |
| 1794-03-22 | Slave Trade Act of 1794 Prohibits American Ships from International Slave Trade U.S. Congress · George Washington · American ship owners | 3 | |
| 1793-03-14 | Cotton Gin Patent Transforms Slavery from Declining Institution to Booming Economic Engine Eli Whitney · Southern planters · Enslaved people | 3 | |
| 1793-02-12 | Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 Creates Federal Enforcement Apparatus for Slavery U.S. Congress · George Washington · Federal judges · +2 | 5 | |
| 1791-02-25 | First Bank of the United States Establishes Financial Elite Capture Pattern Alexander Hamilton · Thomas Jefferson · James Madison · +2 | 5 | |
| 1790-03-26 | Naturalization Act Restricts Citizenship to Free White Persons Creating Racial Caste System First Congress · George Washington | 2 | |
| 1790-02-11 | Quaker Antislavery Petitions to First Congress Trigger Fierce Debate and Tabling Society of Friends (Quakers) · Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery · Benjamin Franklin · +3 | 6 | |
| 1787-09-17 | Constitution Entrenches Slavery Through Three-Fifths Compromise and Multiple Protections Constitutional Convention · James Wilson · Charles Pinckney · +2 | 5 | |
| 1787-09-06 | Electoral College Design Leverages Three-Fifths Compromise to Amplify Slave State Power Constitutional Convention delegates · James Madison · Southern state delegates · +1 | 4 | |
| 1787-08-29 | Constitutional Convention Adopts Fugitive Slave Clause Requiring Northern Complicity Pierce Butler · Charles Pinckney · James Madison · +2 | 5 | |
| 1787-08-25 | Constitutional Convention Guarantees 20-Year Protection for International Slave Trade Committee of Eleven · William Livingston · John Rutledge · +4 | 7 | |
| 1787-08-08 | Gouverneur Morris Condemns Slavery as Curse of Heaven at Constitutional Convention Gouverneur Morris · James Madison · Southern state delegates · +1 | 4 | |
| 1787-07-13 | Northwest Ordinance Prohibits Slavery While Mandating Fugitive Slave Returns Continental Congress · Nathan Dane · Southern state delegates · +1 | 4 | |
| 1787-07-12 | Three-Fifths Compromise Gives Slaveholders Massive Extra Political Power James Wilson · Charles Pinckney · Gouverneur Morris · +3 | 6 | |
| 1754-06-19 | Albany Congress Exposes Franklin to Haudenosaunee Democratic Model Benjamin Franklin · Haudenosaunee Confederacy · Hendrick (Mohawk leader) · +2 | 5 | |
| 1754-05-15 | Haudenosaunee Confederacy: Democratic Practices Influencing Constitutional Design Haudenosaunee Confederacy · Benjamin Franklin · Indigenous Leadership · +2 | 5 | |
| 1750-01-01 | Andean Ayllu: Sophisticated Communal Indigenous Governance Model Andean Indigenous Communities · Quechua Leaders · Aymara Communities | 3 | |
| 1722-08-25 | Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace: Indigenous Democratic Foundation Haudenosaunee Confederacy · Indigenous Leadership · Tuscarora Nation | 3 | |
| 1722-08-25 | Tuscarora Nation Joins Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Creating Six Nations Haudenosaunee Confederacy · Tuscarora Nation · Five Nations (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca) | 3 | |
| 1705-10-01 | Virginia Slave Code of 1705 Consolidates Comprehensive Racial Caste System Into Law Virginia House of Burgesses · Virginia Colony · Slaveholders | 3 | |
| 1676-09-19 | Bacon's Rebellion Unites Poor Whites and Blacks, Triggering Elite Shift Toward Racial Slavery Nathaniel Bacon · William Berkeley · Virginia planters · +2 | 5 | |
| 1662-12-01 | Virginia Enacts Partus Sequitur Ventrem Making Slavery Hereditary Through Mothers Virginia House of Burgesses · Virginia Colony · Slaveholders | 3 | |
| 1619-08-20 | First Enslaved Africans Arrive in Virginia, Beginning Atlantic Slave Trade in British North America Virginia Colony · Sir George Yeardley · Abraham Peirsey · +2 | 5 | |
| 1600-01-01 | Iroquois Women: Political Power and Governance Roles Iroquois Women Leaders · Clan Mothers · Haudenosaunee Nations | 3 | |
| 1600-01-01 | Pre-Colonial Indigenous Democratic Governance Models Indigenous Governance Networks · Tribal Councils · Haudenosaunee Confederacy · +1 | 4 | |
| 1142-01-01 | Haudenosaunee Confederacy: Pre-Constitutional Democratic Model Haudenosaunee Confederacy · Indigenous Leadership · Benjamin Franklin · +4 | 7 |
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