| 1965-03-01 | McNamara and Johnson Administration Begin Systematic Deception About Vietnam War Progress Creating "Credibility Gap"
3 src Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara · Lyndon B. Johnson · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 1964-05-01 | Phyllis Schlafly Publishes 'A Choice Not an Echo,' Launching Conservative Movement Infrastructure
3 src Phyllis Schlafly · Barry Goldwater · Republican Party | | confirmed |
| 1959-01-01 | Congress Holds 25 Hearings on Pentagon Revolving Door, General Bradley Testifies Against Contractor Influence
3 src U.S. Congress · U.S. Department of Defense · Defense contractors |
| confirmed |
| 1958-01-01 | John M. Olin Foundation Begins Eight-Year Operation as Secret CIA Money Laundering Bank
5 src John M. Olin Foundation · Central Intelligence Agency · John M. Olin |
| confirmed |
| 1953-01-28 | Charles Wilson Confirmed Defense Secretary After "Good for General Motors" Controversy Reveals Corporate-State Fusion
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · General Motors · Senate Armed Services Committee · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 1951-03-12 | Kefauver Committee Televised Hearings Draw 30 Million Viewers - Organized Crime Exposed
3 src Estes Kefauver · U.S. Senate | | confirmed |
| 1949-08-10 | Louis Johnson Exonerated in B-36 Scandal Despite Convair Board Service and Contract Awards
3 src Louis Johnson · House Armed Services Committee · U.S. Air Force |
| confirmed |
| 1948-08-03 | Alger Hiss Testifies Before HUAC as Whittaker Chambers Accuses Him of Espionage
3 src Richard Nixon · House Un-American Activities Committee | | confirmed |
| 1945-09-03 | Operation Paperclip Secretly Recruits Nazi Scientists, Whitewashes War Crimes
3 src U.S. War Department · State Department · Harry Truman |
| confirmed |
| 1942-10-20 | Alien Property Custodian Seizes Bush-Thyssen Nazi Banking Assets
3 src U.S. Treasury Department |
| confirmed |
| 1938-01-01 | FHA Underwriting Manual Formalizes Racial Covenants, Physical Segregation
3 src Federal Housing Administration · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development | | confirmed |
| 1934-06-27 | Federal Housing Administration Created, Institutionalizes Racial Segregation
3 src Federal Housing Administration · Federal Home Loan Bank Board · U.S. Chamber of Commerce | | confirmed |
| 1934-06-16 | Pecora Commission Issues Final Report on Wall Street Corruption
3 src Ferdinand Pecora · U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency · Senator Duncan Fletcher | | confirmed |
| 1932-03-02 | Senate Banking Committee Launches Investigation into Wall Street Crash
3 src U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency · Senator Duncan Fletcher | | confirmed |
| 1931-07-20 | Albert Fall Enters Prison as First Cabinet Member Incarcerated for Felony Crimes
3 src Albert Fall | | confirmed |
| 1930-06-17 | Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act Enacts Corporate Protectionism Despite Economist Warnings
3 src Herbert Hoover · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1929-10-25 | Albert Fall Convicted of Bribery - First Cabinet Member Imprisoned for Crimes in Office
3 src Albert Fall | | confirmed |
| 1924-03-28 | Coolidge Fires Daugherty for Refusing to Open Justice Department Files
3 src Harry Daugherty · Calvin Coolidge · Warren G. Harding | | confirmed |
| 1923-10-15 | Senate Public Lands Committee Begins Teapot Dome Hearings Under Thomas Walsh
3 src Albert Fall | | confirmed |
| 1923-05-30 | Jesse Smith Suicide Exposes Ohio Gang Justice Department Corruption
3 src Harry Daugherty · Warren G. Harding | | confirmed |
| 1923-02-15 | Charles Forbes Resigns Veterans Bureau Amid Massive Corruption Scandal
3 src Warren G. Harding | | confirmed |
| 1922-04-15 | Senate Initiates Investigation of Teapot Dome Secret Oil Leases
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1921-11-30 | Interior Secretary Albert Fall Receives $100,000 Cash Bribe from Edward Doheny
3 src Albert Fall | | confirmed |
| 1921-11-23 | Revenue Act of 1921 Begins Mellon Tax Cuts for Wealthy
3 src Andrew Mellon · Warren G. Harding · Republican Party | | confirmed |
| 1912-11-05 | Montana Voters Pass Corrupt Practices Act Banning Corporate Political Spending
3 src Anaconda Copper Mining Company |
| confirmed |
| 1899-01-01 | Standard Oil Trust Controls 90% of U.S. Oil Refining - Monopoly Power Peak
3 src John D. Rockefeller |
| confirmed |
| 1898-05-01 | Embalmed Beef Scandal - War Profiteering and McKinley Administration Negligence
3 src William McKinley |
| confirmed |
| 1896-11-03 | McKinley Victory Establishes Mark Hanna's Corporate Fundraising Model
3 src William McKinley · Standard Oil · John D. Rockefeller · Republican National Committee | | 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 |
| 1887-02-08 | Dawes Allotment Act Destroys Tribal Land Ownership, Facilitating Loss of 90 Million Acres to White Settlers
3 src U.S. Congress · Grover Cleveland · Bureau of Indian Affairs |
| confirmed |
| 1882-12-19 | Roscoe Conkling's Fraudulent Argument for Corporate Personhood in San Mateo County v. Southern Pacific
4 src U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1881-07-02 | Charles Guiteau Shoots President Garfield Over Patronage Denial
3 src Chester A. Arthur |
| confirmed |
| 1881-04-01 | Garfield Launches Investigation of Star Route Postal Fraud Scheme
3 src Chester A. Arthur |
| confirmed |
| 1879-10-01 | Carlisle Indian Industrial School Opens With "Kill the Indian, Save the Man" Mission of Cultural Genocide
3 src U.S. government · U.S. War Department · Bureau of Indian Affairs |
| confirmed |
| 1877-02-28 | Congress Seizes Black Hills With Only 10% Sioux Consent, Violating Fort Laramie Treaty Requirement for 75% Approval
3 src U.S. Congress · Sioux Nation · Ulysses S. Grant |
| confirmed |
| 1876-07-08 | Hamburg Massacre: Red Shirts Murder Black Militia to Suppress Voting
4 src |
| confirmed |
| 1876-03-02 | War Secretary Belknap Impeached for Selling Military Post Traderships
4 src Ulysses S. Grant · U.S. House of Representatives |
| confirmed |
| 1875-01-01 | Carnegie Opens Edgar Thomson Steel Works - Introduces Bessemer Process at Scale
3 src Andrew Carnegie | | confirmed |
| 1874-01-20 | Congress Repeals Salary Grab Act After Public Outrage Over Corruption
3 src U.S. Congress · Ulysses S. Grant |
| confirmed |
| 1873-11-19 | Boss Tweed Convicted After Second Trial
3 src William "Boss" Tweed · Elihu Root |
| confirmed |
| 1873-04-13 | Colfax Massacre: 150 Black Americans Murdered to Overthrow Local Government
4 src Ku Klux Klan |
| confirmed |
| 1873-01-06 | House Launches Credit Mobilier Investigation
3 src U.S. House of Representatives |
| confirmed |
| 1869-09-24 | Black Friday - Gould and Fisk Gold Corner Attempt Triggers Financial Panic
3 src Jay Gould · Ulysses S. Grant · U.S. Treasury | | confirmed |
| 1868-04-29 | Fort Laramie Treaty Guarantees Black Hills to Sioux in Perpetuity - Later Violated for Gold Rush
3 src Sioux Nation · U.S. government |
| confirmed |
| 1865-05-29 | Andrew Johnson Begins Mass Pardons of Confederate Leaders
4 src Andrew Johnson · Republican Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1862-01-13 | Lincoln's Secretary of War Simon Cameron Resigns Amid Procurement Corruption and Contract Fraud Enabling Profiteering
3 src Abraham Lincoln · U.S. House of Representatives |
| confirmed |
| 1861-01-01 | Civil War Contractors Defraud Government with Defective Weapons and Shoddy Goods Costing Lives and Millions
3 src U.S. War Department |
| confirmed |
| 1851-03-03 | California Land Act of 1851 Enables Systematic Legal Theft from Mexican Land Grant Holders
3 src U.S. Congress · Land speculators | | confirmed |
| 1850-09-18 | Fugitive Slave Act Transforms Federal Government into Kidnapping Apparatus for Slaveholders
5 src U.S. Congress · Slaveholders | | confirmed |
| 1848-02-02 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Promises Land Rights Then Enables Systematic Theft from Mexican Americans
4 src U.S. Senate · Mexico · U.S. government | | confirmed |
| 1846-05-13 | Mexican-American War Begins as Deliberate Land Grab for Slavery Expansion
3 src James K. Polk · U.S. Congress · Mexico · Abraham Lincoln | | confirmed |
| 1845-01-01 | Manifest Destiny Ideology Provides Racist Justification for Territorial Conquest and Indigenous Genocide
4 src James K. Polk · U.S. government | | confirmed |
| 1841-09-13 | Whigs Expel Tyler After Bank Vetoes Reveal States' Rights Corruption Agenda
3 src John Tyler · Henry Clay · Whig Party | | confirmed |
| 1838-11-01 | Swartwout Embezzles $1.2 Million, Exposing Spoils System Corruption
3 src Andrew Jackson · Martin Van Buren · U.S. Treasury | | confirmed |
| 1835-12-29 | Treaty of New Echota Signed by Unauthorized Cherokee Minority Provides Legal Pretext for Forced Removal
4 src Cherokee Nation · U.S. Congress · Andrew Jackson · Martin Van Buren | | confirmed |
| 1833-10-01 | Nicholas Biddle Deliberately Contracts Credit to Create "Biddle's Panic" and Force Bank Recharter
4 src Second Bank of the United States · Andrew Jackson · Henry Clay · U.S. Congress · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1829-03-04 | Andrew Jackson Inaugurates Spoils System, Replacing Merit with Political Loyalty
3 src Andrew Jackson · Martin Van Buren | | confirmed |
| 1822-07-02 | Denmark Vesey Plans Massive Charleston Slave Rebellion, Exposing Institutional Terror
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1819-03-06 | McCulloch v. Maryland Establishes Federal Supremacy and Implied Powers, Protecting Second Bank from State Accountability
3 src John Marshall · U.S. Supreme Court · Second Bank of the United States · State of Maryland | | confirmed |
| 1816-04-10 | Second Bank of the United States Chartered, Immediately Plagued by Speculation and Fraud
3 src James Madison · U.S. Congress · Second Bank of the United States | | confirmed |
| 1813-07-01 | General James Wilkinson Commands War of 1812 Campaigns While Taking Contractor Kickbacks and Spanish Bribes
3 src Spanish Empire · James Madison | | confirmed |
| 1800-08-30 | Gabriel's Rebellion Plans Massive Slave Uprising in Virginia, Exposing System's Fragility
3 src James Monroe | | confirmed |
| 1798-07-07 | Quasi-War Enables Military-Industrial Expansion and Permanent Navy Establishment
3 src John Adams · U.S. Congress · George Washington | | confirmed |
| 1797-10-18 | XYZ Affair Exposes French Diplomatic Bribery Demands and Triggers Quasi-War
3 src John Marshall · John Adams |
| confirmed |
| 1795-01-07 | Yazoo Land Fraud Represents Largest Corruption Scandal of Early Republic
3 src Georgia Legislature | | confirmed |
| 1791-02-25 | First Bank of the United States Establishes Financial Elite Capture Pattern
3 src Alexander Hamilton · Thomas Jefferson · James Madison · George Washington · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1787-08-29 | Constitutional Convention Adopts Fugitive Slave Clause Requiring Northern Complicity
3 src Charles Pinckney · James Madison | | confirmed |
| 1600-01-01 | Pre-Colonial Indigenous Democratic Governance Models
3 src Haudenosaunee Confederacy | | confirmed |