| 1901-09-28 | Balangiga Massacre Triggers Samar Pacification - Scorched Earth Retaliation
3 src Theodore Roosevelt | | confirmed |
| 1901-03-02 | Platt Amendment Enacted - Cuba Becomes U.S. Protectorate
3 src William McKinley · Elihu Root | | confirmed |
| 1900-06-20 | Boxer Rebellion - Eight-Nation Alliance Invasion Enforces Imperial Control
3 src William McKinley | | confirmed |
| 1899-09-06 | Open Door Policy Announced - Corporate Imperialism Disguised as Free Trade
3 src William McKinley | | confirmed |
| 1899-02-04 | Philippine-American War Begins - Liberation Becomes Brutal Occupation
3 src William McKinley | | confirmed |
| 1898-07-07 | Hawaii Annexation - U.S. Legitimizes Corporate Coup Against Monarchy
3 src William McKinley · Sanford B. Dole · U.S. Marines | | confirmed |
| 1898-04-25 | Spanish-American War Begins - Imperial Expansion Under Humanitarian Pretext
3 src William McKinley · Theodore Roosevelt · U.S. Navy · Spanish Empire | | confirmed |
| 1893-03-03 | Anti-Pinkerton Act: Congress Limits Private Armies After Homestead Violence
3 src U.S. Congress · Pinkerton Detective Agency |
| confirmed |
| 1890-01-01 | Company Towns and Debt Peonage: Corporate Control of Coal Mining Communities
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1887-02-04 | Interstate Commerce Act: First Federal Regulatory Response to Corporate Monopoly
3 src U.S. Congress · Interstate Commerce Commission |
| confirmed |
| 1886-05-10 | Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad: The Corporate Personhood Precedent That Never Was
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · Santa Clara County |
| confirmed |
| 1884-11-04 | Cleveland Election Marks Shift Toward Corporate Campaign Financing
3 src Grover Cleveland · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1884-06-03 | Mugwump Republicans Bolt Party Over Blaine Nomination, Citing Corruption
3 src Grover Cleveland |
| confirmed |
| 1877-03-01 | Munn v. Illinois: Supreme Court Affirms Public Power to Regulate Monopolies
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · Illinois Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 1873-11-19 | Boss Tweed Convicted After Second Trial
3 src William "Boss" Tweed · Elihu Root |
| confirmed |
| 1871-10-21 | Thomas Nast Cartoon Depicts Tweed as Money Bag
3 src William "Boss" Tweed | | confirmed |
| 1871-07-08 | New York Times Exposes Tweed Ring with Stolen Records
3 src New York Times · William "Boss" Tweed | | confirmed |
| 1817-03-03 | Madison Vetoes Bonus Bill for Internal Improvements on Constitutional Grounds, Setting Precedent Against Federal Infrastructure
3 src James Madison · John C. Calhoun · Henry Clay · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1814-12-15 | Hartford Convention Federalist Secession Threat Establishes Nullification Precedent
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1806-11-27 | Burr Conspiracy and Acquittal Establishes Elite Immunity from Treason Prosecution
3 src Thomas Jefferson · John Marshall | | confirmed |
| 1754-06-19 | Albany Congress Exposes Franklin to Haudenosaunee Democratic Model
3 src Benjamin Franklin · Haudenosaunee Confederacy | | confirmed |
| 1754-05-15 | Haudenosaunee Confederacy: Democratic Practices Influencing Constitutional Design
3 src Haudenosaunee Confederacy · Benjamin Franklin · Indigenous Leadership | | confirmed |
| 1750-01-01 | Andean Ayllu: Sophisticated Communal Indigenous Governance Model
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1722-08-25 | Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace: Indigenous Democratic Foundation
4 src Haudenosaunee Confederacy · Indigenous Leadership | | confirmed |
| 1722-08-25 | Tuscarora Nation Joins Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Creating Six Nations
3 src Haudenosaunee Confederacy | | confirmed |
| 1600-01-01 | Iroquois Women: Political Power and Governance Roles
4 src | | confirmed |
| 1142-01-01 | Haudenosaunee Confederacy: Pre-Constitutional Democratic Model
3 src Haudenosaunee Confederacy · Indigenous Leadership · Benjamin Franklin · John Adams · +1 |
| confirmed |