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1877-02-28Congress Seizes Black Hills With Only 10% Sioux Consent, Violating Fort Laramie Treaty Requirement for 75% Approval

institutional-corruption indigenous-genocide congressional-capture +2

1877-02-26Compromise of 1877: Wormley Agreement Abandons Black Americans

institutional-capture democratic-erosion racial-injustice +1

1876-07-08Hamburg Massacre: Red Shirts Murder Black Militia to Suppress Voting

democratic-erosion elite-impunity reconstruction-sabotage +2

1876-03-27United States v. Cruikshank Guts Federal Civil Rights Enforcement

judicial-capture institutional-capture reconstruction-sabotage +2

1876-03-02War Secretary Belknap Impeached for Selling Military Post Traderships

institutional-capture systematic-corruption elite-impunity +1

1875-05-10Whiskey Ring Scandal: Treasury Officials Steal Millions in Tax Revenue

institutional-capture systematic-corruption tax-evasion +1

1875-01-01Carnegie Opens Edgar Thomson Steel Works - Introduces Bessemer Process at Scale

corporate-power gilded-age steel-industry +2

1874-12-07Vicksburg Massacre: White League Kills 150-300 Black Citizens, Overthrows Sheriff

political-violence elite-impunity institutional-racism +2

1874-11-18Woman's Christian Temperance Union Founded Creating Alliance and Opposition to Suffrage

womens-suffrage corporate-opposition temperance-movement +2

1874-09-14Battle of Liberty Place: White League Stages Armed Coup Against Louisiana Government

institutional-capture political-violence elite-impunity +2

1874-08-30Coushatta Massacre: White League Assassinates Entire Republican Parish Government

institutional-capture political-violence elite-impunity +2

1874-07-02Custer's Black Hills Expedition Violates Fort Laramie Treaty, Discovering Gold and Triggering Rush to Sioux Sacred Lands

indigenous-genocide military-expansion sacred-sites +3

1874-01-20Congress Repeals Salary Grab Act After Public Outrage Over Corruption

systematic-corruption elite-impunity gilded-age +1

1873-11-19Boss Tweed Convicted After Second Trial

systematic-corruption political-machines weak-accountability

1873-09-18Panic of 1873: Railroad Speculation Triggers Economic Collapse

systematic-corruption corporate-welfare financial-manipulation +1

1873-04-14Slaughterhouse Cases Gut Fourteenth Amendment Protections

institutional-capture corporate-influence democratic-erosion +1

1873-04-13Colfax Massacre: 150 Black Americans Murdered to Overthrow Local Government

democratic-erosion reconstruction-sabotage white-supremacy +2

1873-01-06House Launches Credit Mobilier Investigation

institutional-capture systematic-corruption political-bribery +1

1872-11-05Susan B. Anthony Arrested for Voting in Presidential Election Tests 14th Amendment

judicial-capture womens-suffrage constitutional-law +2

1872-09-04Credit Mobilier Scandal: The Birth of the Gilded Age

institutional-capture systematic-corruption infrastructure-profiteering +1

1872-02-17Cleveland Massacre - Rockefeller Consolidates Oil Refining Monopoly in Six Weeks

corporate-power market-manipulation monopoly +2

1871-10-21Thomas Nast Cartoon Depicts Tweed as Money Bag

systematic-corruption media-resistance public-accountability

1871-07-08New York Times Exposes Tweed Ring with Stolen Records

institutional-capture systematic-corruption whistleblower-retaliation +1

1871-04-20Congressional Hearings on KKK Terrorism During Reconstruction Reveal Systematic Collective Punishment

authoritarianism civil-rights constitutional-crisis +1

1871-04-20Ku Klux Klan Act Authorizes Federal Suppression of Terrorist Violence

reconstruction racial-terrorism federal-enforcement +1

1870-01-10Standard Oil Company Incorporated in Ohio by John D. Rockefeller

corporate-power institutional-capture monopoly +2

1869-12-10Wyoming Territory Becomes First in U.S. to Grant Women Full Voting Rights

womens-suffrage democratic-expansion western-suffrage +2

1869-09-24Black Friday - Gould and Fisk Gold Corner Attempt Triggers Financial Panic

systematic-corruption market-manipulation financial-manipulation +2

1869-05-15Suffrage Movement Splits Over 15th Amendment as Stanton and Anthony Deploy Racist Rhetoric

womens-suffrage institutional-racism democratic-expansion +2

1868-07-09Fourteenth Amendment Ratified: Corporate Hijacking Begins

institutional-capture corporate-influence democratic-erosion +1

1868-04-29Fort Laramie Treaty Guarantees Black Hills to Sioux in Perpetuity - Later Violated for Gold Rush

indigenous-rights institutional-corruption sacred-sites +2

1868-03-04Erie War Escalates - Gould and Fisk Flee to Jersey with $7 Million in Watered Stock

political-corruption gilded-age corporate-fraud +2

1868-02-24Andrew Johnson Impeached for Obstructing Reconstruction

institutional-capture democratic-erosion reconstruction-sabotage +1

1867-01-01Vanderbilt Consolidates New York Central Railroad - Creates First Giant Railroad System

corporate-power monopoly gilded-age +2

1866-02-19Johnson Vetoes Freedmen's Bureau Expansion, Sabotaging Reconstruction

institutional-capture racial-injustice reconstruction-sabotage +1

1866-01-01Alabama Initiates Convict Leasing: Slavery by Another Name

institutional-capture systematic-corruption prison-industrial-complex +1

1865-12-24Ku Klux Klan Founded as Terrorist Organization to Restore White Supremacy

institutional-capture political-violence reconstruction-sabotage +2

1865-11-24Mississippi Enacts First Black Codes: Blueprint for Convict Leasing

institutional-capture systematic-corruption prison-industrial-complex +1

1865-05-29Andrew Johnson Begins Mass Pardons of Confederate Leaders

institutional-capture racial-injustice reconstruction-sabotage +1

1865-04-14John Wilkes Booth Assassinates Lincoln in Coordinated Conspiracy to Decapitate Union Government After Confederate Defeat

political-violence assassination terrorism +2

1864-11-29Sand Creek Massacre - Colorado Militia Slaughters 150 Peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Under Protection Flag

impunity institutional-corruption war-crimes +2

1864-11-08Copperheads Attempt Election Manipulation Through Peace Platform and Confederate Conspiracy While Deploying Racist Propaganda

election-manipulation democratic-party copperheads +3

1863-07-13New York Draft Riots Explode Over Class-Based Conscription System Enabling Wealthy to Buy Exemptions While Poor Fight

racial-violence draft-riots class-inequality +3

1863-03-02Congress Passes False Claims Act Allowing Citizens to Sue War Profiteers After Contractor Fraud Crisis

accountability false-claims-act war-profiteering +2

1863-01-15Treasury Department Cotton Permit System Enables Massive Corruption as Officials Trade with Enemy for Personal Profit

war-profiteering treasury-corruption cotton-trade +2

1863-01-01Emancipation Proclamation Faces Violent Northern Resistance from Democrats and White Supremacists Fearing Labor Competition

racism white-supremacy resistance +3

1862-07-01Pacific Railway Act Creates Land Grant System Enabling Massive Railroad Speculation and Corruption

speculation institutional-corruption railroad-corruption +2

1862-05-01General Benjamin Butler's New Orleans Occupation Marked by Systematic Corruption and Cotton Trade Profiteering

war-profiteering accountability-failure new-orleans +2

1862-02-25Legal Tender Act Creates Unbacked Greenback Currency Enabling Speculation and Inflation Despite Constitutional Questions

speculation financial-manipulation constitutional-crisis +3

1862-01-13Lincoln's Secretary of War Simon Cameron Resigns Amid Procurement Corruption and Contract Fraud Enabling Profiteering

corruption government-contracts patronage +2

1861-04-12Confederate Bombardment of Fort Sumter Begins Civil War and Triggers Massive War Profiteering Industry

war-profiteering fort-sumter civil-war +2

1861-01-01Civil War Contractors Defraud Government with Defective Weapons and Shoddy Goods Costing Lives and Millions

corruption government-contracts contract-fraud +2

1860-12-20South Carolina Secession Launches Confederate States Formation to Preserve Slavery as Explicit Constitutional Foundation

institutional-capture constitutional-crisis slavery +3

1860-04-23Democratic Party Convention Split Over Slavery Platform Fractures Last National Institution Binding North and South

political-manipulation slavery institutional-collapse +3

1859-10-16John Brown's Harpers Ferry Raid Exposes Slave Power's Armed Defense of Institutional Capture

institutional-capture democratic-erosion political-violence +2

1858-08-21Lincoln-Douglas Debates Expose Popular Sovereignty as Slavery Expansion Vehicle

institutional-capture systematic-corruption democratic-erosion +2

1858-01-04Kansas Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Lecompton Constitution Despite Buchanan Bribery

institutional-capture systematic-corruption democratic-erosion +2

1857-11-07Lecompton Constitution Referendum Demonstrates Electoral Fraud in Service of Slavery Expansion

institutional-corruption electoral-fraud slavery-expansion +3

1857-03-06Dred Scott Decision Demonstrates Supreme Court Capture by Slave Power Through Political Collusion

supreme-court institutional-capture constitutional-crisis +3

1856-05-24Pottawatomie Massacre Escalates Bleeding Kansas Violence, 29 Dead in Three Months

political-violence bleeding-kansas slavery-conflict +2

1856-05-22Preston Brooks Beats Charles Sumner on Senate Floor, Southern Elite Celebrates Violence

political-violence institutional-corruption slave-power +2

1855-03-30Border Ruffians Steal Kansas Election Through Systematic Fraud and Violence

institutional-capture democratic-erosion political-violence +2

1854-05-30Kansas-Nebraska Act Repeals Missouri Compromise, Triggering Violent Territorial Conflict

slave-power slavery-expansion bleeding-kansas +3

1853-03-04Pierce Inauguration Falsely Claims Slavery Question Settled While Planning Expansion

institutional-capture democratic-erosion territorial-expansion +2

1852-11-02Pierce Elected in Slave Power Landslide as Whig Party Collapses Over Slavery

institutional-capture democratic-erosion slave-power +2

1851-05-29Sojourner Truth Speech at Akron Women's Rights Convention Exposes Intersection of Racism and Sexism

womens-suffrage abolitionist-movement racial-justice +2

1851-03-03California Land Act of 1851 Enables Systematic Legal Theft from Mexican Land Grant Holders

institutional-corruption treaty-violation california-land-act +3

1850-09-18Fugitive Slave Act Transforms Federal Government into Kidnapping Apparatus for Slaveholders

institutional-corruption fugitive-slave-act federal-complicity +3

1850-04-22California Legislature Begins Funding State Militia Expeditions for Indigenous Genocide

institutional-corruption state-violence indigenous-genocide +2

1849-01-24California Gold Rush Enables Massive Land Speculation Fraud and Corruption Schemes

systematic-corruption economic-extraction financial-fraud +2

1848-11-07Free Soil Party Splits Democratic Vote, Demonstrating Slavery's Destruction of Party Unity

free-soil-party antislavery political-realignment +2

1848-07-19Seneca Falls Convention Launches Women's Rights Movement with Declaration of Sentiments

institutional-resistance womens-suffrage civil-rights +2

1848-02-02Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Promises Land Rights Then Enables Systematic Theft from Mexican Americans

institutional-corruption mexican-american-war treaty-violation +3

1848-01-24California Gold Rush Triggers Genocide, Lawlessness, and Massive Land Fraud

institutional-corruption california-gold-rush indigenous-genocide +3

1847-01-04Samuel Colt Rescues Failing Gun Company with Mexican War Government Contract

government-contracts war-profiteering mexican-american-war +1

1846-08-08Wilmot Proviso Triggers Sectional Crisis Over Slavery in Conquered Mexican Territory

institutional-corruption territorial-expansion sectional-conflict +3

1846-05-13Mexican-American War Begins as Deliberate Land Grab for Slavery Expansion

institutional-corruption territorial-expansion slavery-expansion +3

1846-05-11Polk Deceives Congress into War Declaration with False American Blood Claims

institutional-capture executive-overreach territorial-expansion +2

1845-03-01Texas Annexed as Slave State Despite Nine Years of Antislavery Opposition

institutional-corruption sectional-conflict slavery-expansion +3

1845-01-01Manifest Destiny Ideology Provides Racist Justification for Territorial Conquest and Indigenous Genocide

institutional-corruption white-nationalism territorial-expansion +3

1844-03-01Tyler Administration Conducts Secret Texas Annexation Negotiations to Expand Slavery

institutional-capture systematic-corruption territorial-expansion +2

1843-10-16Tyler Begins Secret Texas Annexation Talks to Strengthen Slave Power

institutional-capture executive-overreach territorial-expansion +2

1842-03-01Prigg v Pennsylvania Supreme Court Ruling Protects Slave Catchers and Enables Kidnapping

supreme-court slavery fugitive-slave-act +3

1841-09-13Whigs Expel Tyler After Bank Vetoes Reveal States' Rights Corruption Agenda

institutional-capture systematic-corruption executive-overreach +2

1840-11-02Log Cabin Campaign Uses Image Manipulation and Corruption Attacks to Defeat Van Buren

systematic-corruption democratic-erosion media-manipulation +2

1839-07-02Amistad Captives Revolt and Win Freedom in Supreme Court, Exposing Slavery's Illegality

institutional-corruption legal-victory slavery +2

1838-11-01Swartwout Embezzles $1.2 Million, Exposing Spoils System Corruption

patronage jackson-era financial-corruption +3

1838-05-26Trail of Tears Forced Removal Begins as 7,000 Troops Round Up 16,000 Cherokee at Gunpoint

genocide state-violence ethnic-cleansing +3

1837-11-07Abolitionist Editor Elijah Lovejoy Murdered by Pro-Slavery Mob; No Prosecutions Follow

civil-liberties press-freedom impunity +3

1837-05-10Panic of 1837 Begins as Banks Refuse Specie Conversion, Triggering Five-Year Depression

financial-crisis jackson-era banking-system +3

1836-07-11Jackson Issues Specie Circular Requiring Hard Money for Land Purchases, Triggering Credit Contraction

financial-manipulation jackson-era banking-system +3

1836-05-26House Gag Rule Suppresses Antislavery Petitions, Demonstrating Slave Power's Congressional Capture

first-amendment institutional-corruption slave-power +3

1836-01-01Courts Prosecute Labor Unions as Criminal Conspiracies in 17 Cases Since 1806, Criminalizing Worker Organization

labor-suppression labor-organizing workers-rights +2

1835-12-29Treaty of New Echota Signed by Unauthorized Cherokee Minority Provides Legal Pretext for Forced Removal

institutional-corruption jackson-era ethnic-cleansing +3

1835-06-01Philadelphia General Strike Wins Ten-Hour Workday for 17 Trades Despite Court Hostility to Labor Organizing

labor-organizing labor-movement workers-rights +2

1834-03-28Senate Censures Jackson for Pet Banks Scheme and Constitutional Overreach

institutional-capture systematic-corruption democratic-erosion +2

1833-10-01Nicholas Biddle Deliberately Contracts Credit to Create "Biddle's Panic" and Force Bank Recharter

institutional-corruption financial-manipulation jackson-era +2

1833-09-26Jackson Removes Federal Deposits to "Pet Banks" Selected Through Political Patronage, Not Financial Merit

institutional-corruption financial-manipulation patronage +3

1832-11-24South Carolina Nullification Crisis Previews Slave Power Secession Tactics

jackson-era constitutional-crisis slave-power +3

1832-07-10Jackson Vetoes Second Bank Recharter, Triggering Financial Manipulation by Both Sides

institutional-corruption financial-manipulation jackson-era +2