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1910-03-19Insurgent Republicans Revolt Against Speaker Cannon: 29-Hour Session Strips Autocratic Powers, Splits GOP
corporate-power progressive-era republican-party +2
1910-01-01Texas Rangers Conduct "La Matanza" Killing 300-5,000 Ethnic Mexicans Along Border
immigration-enforcement authoritarianism civil-rights +2
1909-08-05Payne-Aldrich Tariff Betrays Progressive Promises: Taft Praises "Best Tariff Bill," Splits Republican Party
corporate-power progressive-era republican-party +2
1909-03-04Roosevelt Leaves Office After 44 Antitrust Suits, Revealing Progressive Era Reform Limits
corporate-power antitrust progressive-era +2
1908-02-24Muller v. Oregon: Brandeis Brief Upholds Women's Labor Protections Using Paternalistic Reasoning
judicial-capture labor-rights progressive-era +2
1908-02-03Supreme Court Loewe v. Lawlor Decision Holds Union Members Personally Liable for Damages
supreme-court judicial-capture labor-suppression +3
1908-01-27Adair v. United States: Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Ban on Yellow-Dog Contracts
judicial-capture labor-suppression progressive-era +2
1907-11-02Roosevelt Approves U.S. Steel Acquisition of Tennessee Coal & Iron During Panic, Exposing Reform Limits
corporate-power regulatory-capture antitrust +2
1907-07-19Roosevelt Justice Department Files Antitrust Suit Against American Tobacco Trust
corporate-power antitrust progressive-era +2
1906-06-30Roosevelt Signs Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act
progressive-era public-health consumer-protection +2
1906-06-29Roosevelt Signs Hepburn Act Creating First True Federal Regulatory Agency
corporate-power progressive-era regulatory-enforcement +2
1906-02-26Upton Sinclair Publishes "The Jungle" Exposing Meatpacking Industry Horrors
corporate-power labor-rights progressive-era +3
1905-06-27Industrial Workers of the World Founded, Challenges AFL Craft Unionism
labor-organizing democratic-resistance worker-power
1905-04-17Supreme Court Strikes Down Labor Protections in Lochner v. New York
supreme-court judicial-capture corporate-power +3
1905-01-30Supreme Court Rules Against Beef Trust, Establishes Stream of Commerce Doctrine
supreme-court corporate-power antitrust +2
1904-03-14Supreme Court Orders Northern Securities Dissolution in First Major Antitrust Victory
supreme-court corporate-power antitrust +2
1904-01-01Lincoln Steffens Publishes "The Shame of the Cities" Exposing Municipal Corruption
corporate-power progressive-era political-corruption +3
1903-10-29Anaconda Copper Shuts Down All Montana Operations to Force Legislative Changes
corporate-power institutional-capture corporate-personhood +4
1903-04-27Giles v. Harris: Supreme Court Refuses to Enforce Black Voting Rights Against Alabama Constitution
supreme-court institutional-capture voting-rights +2
1903-02-19Roosevelt Signs Elkins Act Prohibiting Railroad Rebates and Price Discrimination
antitrust progressive-era regulatory-enforcement +1
1903-02-14Roosevelt Creates Bureau of Corporations and Department of Commerce and Labor
corporate-power antitrust progressive-era +2
1902-11-01Ida Tarbell Begins "The History of the Standard Oil Company" in McClure's Magazine
corporate-power antitrust progressive-era +3
1902-10-03Roosevelt Intervenes in Coal Strike as Neutral Arbitrator, Origins of Square Deal
corporate-power labor-rights progressive-era +2
1902-05-12Anthracite Coal Strike Begins in Pennsylvania, 147,000 Miners Walk Out
corporate-power labor-rights progressive-era +1
1902-05-01Justice Department Files Antitrust Suit Against Beef Trust Monopoly
corporate-power antitrust progressive-era +2
1902-02-19Roosevelt Announces Northern Securities Antitrust Suit Against J.P. Morgan Railroad Trust
corporate-power antitrust progressive-era +2
1902-01-01Water Cure Torture Scandal - Senate Investigation Exposes Systematic Abuse
congressional-oversight imperialism accountability-crisis +3
1901-09-28Balangiga Massacre Triggers Samar Pacification - Scorched Earth Retaliation
imperialism impunity war-crimes +3
1901-05-21Alabama Constitutional Convention: White Supremacy Constitution Becomes Blueprint for Southern Disenfranchisement
voting-rights alabama white-supremacy +3
1901-03-10Carnegie Sells to J.P. Morgan: U.S. Steel Becomes First Billion-Dollar Corporation
corporate-consolidation monopoly-power vertical-integration +2
1901-03-02Platt Amendment Enacted - Cuba Becomes U.S. Protectorate
imperialism gilded-age regime-change +3
1901-03-01J.P. Morgan Creates Northern Securities: $400 Million Railroad Monopoly
market-manipulation monopoly-power corporate-merger +2
1901-02-26U.S. Steel Formation - Morgan Creates First Billion-Dollar Trust
gilded-age corporate-consolidation monopoly-power +2
1901-02-25U.S. Steel Corporation Formed - First Billion-Dollar Corporation in History
monopoly gilded-age corporate-consolidation +2
1900-06-20Boxer Rebellion - Eight-Nation Alliance Invasion Enforces Imperial Control
imperialism gilded-age military-intervention +2
1899-09-06Open Door Policy Announced - Corporate Imperialism Disguised as Free Trade
corporate-power imperialism gilded-age +3
1899-02-04Philippine-American War Begins - Liberation Becomes Brutal Occupation
imperialism torture war-crimes +3
1899-01-01Standard Oil Trust Controls 90% of U.S. Oil Refining - Monopoly Power Peak
corporate-power regulatory-capture corruption +3
1898-11-10Wilmington Coup d'État Overthrows Elected Biracial Government Through Mass Racial Violence
civil-rights constitutional-crisis voter-suppression +1
1898-11-10Wilmington Massacre and Coup: Armed White Supremacists Overthrow Elected Government, Murder Black Citizens
voting-rights white-supremacy racial-violence +3
1898-07-07Hawaii Annexation - U.S. Legitimizes Corporate Coup Against Monarchy
corporate-power imperialism gilded-age +3
1898-05-01Embalmed Beef Scandal - War Profiteering and McKinley Administration Negligence
corruption impunity war-profiteering +3
1898-04-25Spanish-American War Begins - Imperial Expansion Under Humanitarian Pretext
imperialism gilded-age spanish-american-war +2
1898-02-15USS Maine Explosion - Yellow Journalism Manufactures War Fever
imperialism propaganda media-manipulation +2
1897-09-10Lattimer Massacre - 19 Unarmed Immigrant Strikers Killed by Sheriff's Posse
labor-suppression immigration impunity +3
1897-07-24Dingley Tariff Enacts Highest Protective Rates in History - Corporate Shield
corporate-power gilded-age protectionism +2
1896-11-03McKinley Victory Establishes Mark Hanna's Corporate Fundraising Model
campaign-finance corporate-power systematic-corruption +3
1896-07-09William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech - Populist Challenge to Corporate Power
campaign-finance populism gilded-age +2
1895-05-27Supreme Court In Re Debs Decision Upholds Federal Injunctions Against Strikes
supreme-court judicial-capture labor-suppression +3
1895-01-21U.S. v. E.C. Knight: Supreme Court Shields Sugar Trust and Eviscerates Antitrust Law
supreme-court judicial-capture corporate-impunity +2
1895-01-01J.P. Morgan Railroad Reorganizations Create Consolidated Monopoly Systems
corporate-power banking-consolidation gilded-age +2
1894-07-03Federal Troops Crush Pullman Strike, Imprison Eugene Debs
labor-suppression federal-intervention state-violence
1894-05-11Pullman Strike Begins After Company Town Wage Cuts Without Rent Reductions
labor-suppression federal-intervention gilded-age +3
1894-02-07Cripple Creek Miners Strike Achieves Rare Victory Through Governor Intervention
labor-rights gilded-age mining-industry +3
1893-11-07Colorado Voters Approve Women's Suffrage Through Referendum in Historic First
womens-suffrage democratic-expansion western-suffrage +2
1893-05-15Western Federation of Miners Founded After Coeur d'Alene Massacre
labor-organizing gilded-age mining-industry +2
1893-03-03Anti-Pinkerton Act: Congress Limits Private Armies After Homestead Violence
corporate-accountability labor-rights legislative-reform +1
1893-01-17U.S. Marines Land in Honolulu, American Businessmen Overthrow Hawaiian Kingdom and Depose Queen Liliuokalani in Illegal Coup
institutional-capture systematic-corruption indigenous-rights +4
1892-11-08New Orleans General Strike: 30,000 Workers Achieve Interracial Labor Victory
labor-organizing gilded-age corporate-resistance +1
1892-07-11Coeur d'Alene Miners Strike Violence Triggers Martial Law, 600 Imprisoned Without Trial
labor-suppression federal-intervention gilded-age +3
1892-07-06Homestead Strike Battle Between Workers and Pinkerton Agents Leaves 10 Dead
labor-suppression gilded-age union-busting +3
1892-07-01Carnegie Steel Company Formed Through Massive Vertical Integration Consolidation
corporate-power monopoly gilded-age +2
1892-06-25Ida B. Wells Publishes "Southern Horrors" Documenting Lynching as Collective Punishment System
press-freedom civil-rights institutional-racism
1892-01-04Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad v. Gibbes: Corporate Personhood Reaffirmed
supreme-court due-process corporate-personhood +2
1892-01-01Pinkerton Detective Agency Operates as Private Corporate Army Against Unions
labor-suppression surveillance gilded-age +3
1891-08-18People's Party Officially Forms in Texas, Launching Populist Movement
labor-organizing corporate-resistance political-realignment +1
1891-07-15Coal Creek War Begins: Miners Free Convict Laborers, Attack Lease System
labor-organizing institutional-racism corporate-resistance +1
1890-12-29Wounded Knee Massacre - U.S. 7th Cavalry Kills 250+ Lakota, Primarily Women and Children, Ending Ghost Dance Movement
war-crimes indigenous-genocide military-atrocities +2
1890-07-02Sherman Antitrust Act Passed but Designed for Non-Enforcement Against Monopolies
corporate-power antitrust regulatory-failure +2
1890-02-18National American Woman Suffrage Association Formed as Merger Heals 21-Year Split
womens-suffrage democratic-expansion movement-organization +1
1890-01-01Company Towns and Debt Peonage: Corporate Control of Coal Mining Communities
corporate-power institutional-capture labor-suppression +2
1889-01-07Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway v. Beckwith: Corporate Personhood Doctrine Becomes Settled Law
supreme-court due-process corporate-personhood +3
1888-01-07Pembina Consolidated Silver Mining Co. v. Pennsylvania: Court Explicitly Affirms Corporate Personhood
supreme-court due-process corporate-personhood +2
1887-10-27Sugar Trust Formation: Henry Havemeyer Consolidates 75% of Sugar Refining
market-manipulation corporate-consolidation monopoly-power +2
1887-07-06Armed Militia Forces King Kalakaua to Sign "Bayonet Constitution," Stripping Hawaiian Sovereignty and Disenfranchising Native Hawaiians
institutional-capture systematic-corruption indigenous-rights +3
1887-02-08Dawes Allotment Act Destroys Tribal Land Ownership, Facilitating Loss of 90 Million Acres to White Settlers
institutional-corruption indigenous-genocide forced-assimilation +2
1887-02-04Interstate Commerce Act: First Federal Regulatory Response to Corporate Monopoly
institutional-accountability democratic-resistance corporate-regulation +1
1886-12-08American Federation of Labor Founded on Craft Union Model Excluding Unskilled Workers
labor-rights labor-organizing gilded-age +3
1886-10-25Wabash v. Illinois: Supreme Court Shields Interstate Monopolies from Regulation
supreme-court corporate-power institutional-capture +2
1886-05-10Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad: The Corporate Personhood Precedent That Never Was
supreme-court constitutional-law gilded-age +5
1886-05-04Haymarket Affair Bombing and Police Violence Trigger Massive Anti-Labor Backlash
labor-suppression gilded-age police-violence +4
1886-03-25Railroad Commission Cases: State Regulation Affirmed with Corporate Property Rights Caveat
supreme-court gilded-age railroad-regulation +3
1886-01-01Knights of Labor Reaches Peak Membership of 700,000 Before Rapid Collapse
labor-rights labor-organizing gilded-age +2
1885-07-01J.P. Morgan Yacht Meeting: Ending Railroad Competition Through Financial Coercion
market-manipulation corporate-consolidation financial-coercion +2
1884-11-04Cleveland Election Marks Shift Toward Corporate Campaign Financing
campaign-finance institutional-capture systematic-corruption +1
1884-06-03Mugwump Republicans Bolt Party Over Blaine Nomination, Citing Corruption
systematic-corruption political-realignment railroad-corruption +1
1883-10-15Civil Rights Cases Strike Down 1875 Act, Legitimizing Jim Crow
judicial-capture institutional-racism reconstruction-sabotage +2
1882-12-19Roscoe Conkling's Fraudulent Argument for Corporate Personhood in San Mateo County v. Southern Pacific
supreme-court institutional-corruption gilded-age +4
1882-05-06Chinese Exclusion Act Bans Immigration Through Racist Labor Scapegoating
labor-suppression racism gilded-age +3
1882-01-02Standard Oil Trust Formed - First Modern Corporate Monopoly Structure
corporate-power institutional-capture monopoly +2
1881-07-02Charles Guiteau Shoots President Garfield Over Patronage Denial
institutional-capture systematic-corruption political-violence +1
1881-04-01Garfield Launches Investigation of Star Route Postal Fraud Scheme
systematic-corruption elite-impunity gilded-age +1
1880-01-01Pullman Company Town Established as Model of Corporate Paternalistic Control
labor-suppression gilded-age company-towns +3
1879-10-01Carlisle Indian Industrial School Opens With "Kill the Indian, Save the Man" Mission of Cultural Genocide
indigenous-genocide cultural-genocide forced-assimilation +2
1879-01-01Standard Oil Attorney Develops Trust Legal Innovation to Circumvent Anti-Monopoly Laws
corporate-power institutional-capture regulatory-evasion +2
1878-06-18Posse Comitatus Act Restricts Federal Military from Domestic Law Enforcement
institutional-capture military-policy reconstruction-sabotage +1
1878-02-28Bland-Allison Act Overrides Presidential Veto, Restores Silver Coinage
corporate-influence gilded-age monetary-policy +1
1877-07-16Great Railroad Strike of 1877 Erupts Across Nation, Federal Troops Deployed Against Workers
labor-suppression federal-intervention gilded-age +3
1877-06-21Black Thursday: Mass Execution of Molly Maguires Based on Pinkerton Infiltration
corporate-power institutional-capture labor-suppression +2
1877-03-01Munn v. Illinois: Supreme Court Affirms Public Power to Regulate Monopolies
supreme-court democratic-resistance regulatory-framework +2