| 1918-01-09 | Wilson Reverses Position and Endorses Women's Suffrage Amendment After Prison Brutality Exposed
3 src Woodrow Wilson · Alice Paul · National Woman's Party · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1917-06-22 | First Suffragist Arrests Begin for White House Picketing as State Repression Escalates
3 src Alice Paul · Lucy Burns · National Woman's Party · Woodrow Wilson | | confirmed |
| 1916-01-01 | Corporate Interests Mobilize Systematic Opposition to Women's Suffrage to Protect Profits
3 src Railroad companies | | confirmed |
| 1915-06-21 | Guinn v. United States: Supreme Court Strikes Down Grandfather Clauses as Fifteenth Amendment Violation
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice Edward White · Oklahoma Legislature · NAACP |
| confirmed |
| 1903-04-27 | Giles v. Harris: Supreme Court Refuses to Enforce Black Voting Rights Against Alabama Constitution
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · Alabama Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 1901-05-21 | Alabama Constitutional Convention: White Supremacy Constitution Becomes Blueprint for Southern Disenfranchisement
3 src Alabama Legislature · Democratic Party |
| confirmed |
| 1898-11-10 | Wilmington Massacre and Coup: Armed White Supremacists Overthrow Elected Government, Murder Black Citizens
3 src Democratic Party |
| confirmed |
| 1897-07-24 | Dingley Tariff Enacts Highest Protective Rates in History - Corporate Shield
3 src William McKinley · Republican Party | | confirmed |
| 1896-07-09 | William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech - Populist Challenge to Corporate Power
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1895-01-01 | J.P. Morgan Railroad Reorganizations Create Consolidated Monopoly Systems
4 src J.P. Morgan · Northern Pacific Railroad | | confirmed |
| 1893-11-07 | Colorado Voters Approve Women's Suffrage Through Referendum in Historic First
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1890-02-18 | National American Woman Suffrage Association Formed as Merger Heals 21-Year Split
3 src Elizabeth Cady Stanton · Susan B. Anthony | | confirmed |
| 1887-07-06 | Armed Militia Forces King Kalakaua to Sign "Bayonet Constitution," Stripping Hawaiian Sovereignty and Disenfranchising Native Hawaiians
4 src Sanford B. Dole |
| confirmed |
| 1884-11-04 | Cleveland Election Marks Shift Toward Corporate Campaign Financing
3 src Grover Cleveland · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1877-02-26 | Compromise of 1877: Wormley Agreement Abandons Black Americans
3 src Rutherford B. Hayes · Southern Democrats |
| confirmed |
| 1876-07-08 | Hamburg Massacre: Red Shirts Murder Black Militia to Suppress Voting
4 src |
| confirmed |
| 1874-11-18 | Woman's Christian Temperance Union Founded Creating Alliance and Opposition to Suffrage
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1874-09-14 | Battle of Liberty Place: White League Stages Armed Coup Against Louisiana Government
3 src White League · Ulysses S. Grant | | confirmed |
| 1869-12-10 | Wyoming Territory Becomes First in U.S. to Grant Women Full Voting Rights
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1869-05-15 | Suffrage Movement Splits Over 15th Amendment as Stanton and Anthony Deploy Racist Rhetoric
3 src Susan B. Anthony · Elizabeth Cady Stanton · Frederick Douglass | | confirmed |
| 1864-11-08 | Copperheads Attempt Election Manipulation Through Peace Platform and Confederate Conspiracy While Deploying Racist Propaganda
3 src Abraham Lincoln · Democratic Party | | confirmed |
| 1860-12-20 | South Carolina Secession Launches Confederate States Formation to Preserve Slavery as Explicit Constitutional Foundation
3 src James Buchanan | | confirmed |
| 1860-04-23 | Democratic Party Convention Split Over Slavery Platform Fractures Last National Institution Binding North and South
3 src Stephen A. Douglas · Democratic Party · Southern Democrats · Northern Democrats | | confirmed |
| 1858-01-04 | Kansas Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Lecompton Constitution Despite Buchanan Bribery
3 src James Buchanan · Stephen A. Douglas | | confirmed |
| 1857-11-07 | Lecompton Constitution Referendum Demonstrates Electoral Fraud in Service of Slavery Expansion
3 src James Buchanan · Stephen A. Douglas · Free-State settlers | | confirmed |
| 1856-05-22 | Preston Brooks Beats Charles Sumner on Senate Floor, Southern Elite Celebrates Violence
3 src U.S. Senate · U.S. House of Representatives | | confirmed |
| 1855-03-30 | Border Ruffians Steal Kansas Election Through Systematic Fraud and Violence
3 src Franklin Pierce | | confirmed |
| 1854-05-30 | Kansas-Nebraska Act Repeals Missouri Compromise, Triggering Violent Territorial Conflict
3 src Stephen A. Douglas · Franklin Pierce · U.S. Congress · Free-State settlers | | confirmed |
| 1853-03-04 | Pierce Inauguration Falsely Claims Slavery Question Settled While Planning Expansion
3 src Franklin Pierce · Stephen A. Douglas · Democratic Party | | confirmed |
| 1851-05-29 | Sojourner Truth Speech at Akron Women's Rights Convention Exposes Intersection of Racism and Sexism
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1848-11-07 | Free Soil Party Splits Democratic Vote, Demonstrating Slavery's Destruction of Party Unity
3 src Martin Van Buren · Democratic Party · Whig Party | | confirmed |
| 1848-07-19 | Seneca Falls Convention Launches Women's Rights Movement with Declaration of Sentiments
3 src Elizabeth Cady Stanton · Frederick Douglass | | confirmed |
| 1845-03-01 | Texas Annexed as Slave State Despite Nine Years of Antislavery Opposition
4 src James K. Polk · John Tyler · John C. Calhoun · U.S. Congress · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1844-03-01 | Tyler Administration Conducts Secret Texas Annexation Negotiations to Expand Slavery
3 src John Tyler · John C. Calhoun | | confirmed |
| 1843-10-16 | Tyler Begins Secret Texas Annexation Talks to Strengthen Slave Power
3 src John Tyler | | confirmed |
| 1840-11-02 | Log Cabin Campaign Uses Image Manipulation and Corruption Attacks to Defeat Van Buren
3 src Martin Van Buren · Whig Party | | confirmed |
| 1832-07-10 | Jackson Vetoes Second Bank Recharter, Triggering Financial Manipulation by Both Sides
3 src Andrew Jackson · Henry Clay · Second Bank of the United States | | confirmed |
| 1826-01-01 | Jefferson Denounces Corrupt Bargain as Betrayal of Democratic Principles
3 src Thomas Jefferson · Andrew Jackson · Democratic-Republican Party | | confirmed |
| 1825-02-09 | Corrupt Bargain Elevates Adams to Presidency Through House Backroom Deal
3 src John Quincy Adams · Henry Clay · Andrew Jackson · U.S. House of Representatives | | confirmed |
| 1824-02-09 | House Elects John Quincy Adams in "Corrupt Bargain" After Clay Throws Support, Ending Era of Good Feelings
3 src John Quincy Adams · Henry Clay · Andrew Jackson · U.S. House of Representatives | | confirmed |
| 1817-03-04 | Era of Good Feelings Begins with Monroe Presidency, Masking Corruption as "Era of Good Stealings"
3 src James Monroe · Democratic-Republican Party | | confirmed |
| 1804-07-11 | Hamilton-Burr Duel Demonstrates Elite Violence and Honor Culture Replacing Law
3 src Alexander Hamilton · Federalist Party · Democratic-Republican Party | | confirmed |
| 1787-09-17 | Constitution Entrenches Slavery Through Three-Fifths Compromise and Multiple Protections
5 src Charles Pinckney · James Madison | | confirmed |
| 1787-09-06 | Electoral College Design Leverages Three-Fifths Compromise to Amplify Slave State Power
3 src James Madison · Southern state delegates | | confirmed |