| 1908-02-03 | Supreme Court Loewe v. Lawlor Decision Holds Union Members Personally Liable for Damages
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · American Federation of Labor |
| confirmed |
| 1901-03-02 | Platt Amendment Enacted - Cuba Becomes U.S. Protectorate
3 src William McKinley · Elihu Root | | confirmed |
| 1901-02-26 | U.S. Steel Formation - Morgan Creates First Billion-Dollar Trust
3 src J.P. Morgan · Andrew Carnegie · Charles Schwab · John D. Rockefeller | | confirmed |
| 1901-02-25 | U.S. Steel Corporation Formed - First Billion-Dollar Corporation in History
4 src J.P. Morgan · Andrew Carnegie · Charles Schwab · U.S. Steel Corporation · +1 | | 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 |
| 1899-01-01 | Standard Oil Trust Controls 90% of U.S. Oil Refining - Monopoly Power Peak
3 src John D. Rockefeller |
| confirmed |
| 1898-07-07 | Hawaii Annexation - U.S. Legitimizes Corporate Coup Against Monarchy
3 src William McKinley · Sanford B. Dole · U.S. Marines | | confirmed |
| 1898-05-01 | Embalmed Beef Scandal - War Profiteering and McKinley Administration Negligence
3 src William McKinley |
| 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 |
| 1898-02-15 | USS Maine Explosion - Yellow Journalism Manufactures War Fever
3 src William McKinley | | confirmed |
| 1897-09-10 | Lattimer Massacre - 19 Unarmed Immigrant Strikers Killed by Sheriff's Posse
5 src United Mine Workers |
| confirmed |
| 1897-07-24 | Dingley Tariff Enacts Highest Protective Rates in History - Corporate Shield
3 src William McKinley · Republican Party | | 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 |
| 1896-07-09 | William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech - Populist Challenge to Corporate Power
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1895-05-27 | Supreme Court In Re Debs Decision Upholds Federal Injunctions Against Strikes
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · Eugene V. Debs · Federal Judiciary · Corporate interests |
| confirmed |
| 1895-01-01 | J.P. Morgan Railroad Reorganizations Create Consolidated Monopoly Systems
4 src J.P. Morgan · Northern Pacific Railroad | | confirmed |
| 1894-05-11 | Pullman Strike Begins After Company Town Wage Cuts Without Rent Reductions
6 src Eugene V. Debs · Grover Cleveland · U.S. Army | | confirmed |
| 1894-02-07 | Cripple Creek Miners Strike Achieves Rare Victory Through Governor Intervention
3 src Western Federation of Miners | | confirmed |
| 1893-05-15 | Western Federation of Miners Founded After Coeur d'Alene Massacre
3 src Western Federation of Miners | | confirmed |
| 1893-03-03 | Anti-Pinkerton Act: Congress Limits Private Armies After Homestead Violence
3 src U.S. Congress · Pinkerton Detective Agency |
| confirmed |
| 1892-11-08 | New Orleans General Strike: 30,000 Workers Achieve Interracial Labor Victory
3 src American Federation of Labor |
| confirmed |
| 1892-07-11 | Coeur d'Alene Miners Strike Violence Triggers Martial Law, 600 Imprisoned Without Trial
3 src Western Federation of Miners · Pinkerton Detective Agency · U.S. Army | | confirmed |
| 1892-07-06 | Homestead Strike Battle Between Workers and Pinkerton Agents Leaves 10 Dead
7 src Andrew Carnegie · Henry Clay Frick · Pinkerton Detective Agency · Carnegie Steel Company | | confirmed |
| 1892-07-01 | Carnegie Steel Company Formed Through Massive Vertical Integration Consolidation
3 src Andrew Carnegie · Henry Clay Frick · Carnegie Steel Company | | confirmed |
| 1892-01-01 | Pinkerton Detective Agency Operates as Private Corporate Army Against Unions
3 src Pinkerton National Detective Agency · Allan Pinkerton · Corporate employers · Labor unions |
| confirmed |
| 1890-07-02 | Sherman Antitrust Act Passed but Designed for Non-Enforcement Against Monopolies
5 src U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1890-01-01 | Company Towns and Debt Peonage: Corporate Control of Coal Mining Communities
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1886-12-08 | American Federation of Labor Founded on Craft Union Model Excluding Unskilled Workers
3 src Samuel Gompers · Knights of Labor | | 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 |
| 1886-05-04 | Haymarket Affair Bombing and Police Violence Trigger Massive Anti-Labor Backlash
4 src Chicago Police Department · Knights of Labor |
| confirmed |
| 1886-03-25 | Railroad Commission Cases: State Regulation Affirmed with Corporate Property Rights Caveat
3 src U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1886-01-01 | Knights of Labor Reaches Peak Membership of 700,000 Before Rapid Collapse
3 src Knights of Labor · Jay Gould · American workers | | 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 |
| 1882-05-06 | Chinese Exclusion Act Bans Immigration Through Racist Labor Scapegoating
3 src Chester A. Arthur · U.S. Congress · Labor unions |
| confirmed |
| 1882-01-02 | Standard Oil Trust Formed - First Modern Corporate Monopoly Structure
5 src John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · Henry Flagler | | confirmed |
| 1881-04-01 | Garfield Launches Investigation of Star Route Postal Fraud Scheme
3 src Chester A. Arthur |
| confirmed |
| 1880-01-01 | Pullman Company Town Established as Model of Corporate Paternalistic Control
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1878-02-28 | Bland-Allison Act Overrides Presidential Veto, Restores Silver Coinage
3 src Rutherford B. Hayes · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1877-07-16 | Great Railroad Strike of 1877 Erupts Across Nation, Federal Troops Deployed Against Workers
5 src Rutherford B. Hayes · U.S. Army | | confirmed |
| 1877-06-21 | Black Thursday: Mass Execution of Molly Maguires Based on Pinkerton Infiltration
4 src Pinkerton Detective Agency |
| 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 |
| 1872-02-17 | Cleveland Massacre - Rockefeller Consolidates Oil Refining Monopoly in Six Weeks
4 src John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · Henry Flagler | | confirmed |
| 1870-01-10 | Standard Oil Company Incorporated in Ohio by John D. Rockefeller
4 src John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · Henry Flagler | | 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 |
| 1868-03-04 | Erie War Escalates - Gould and Fisk Flee to Jersey with $7 Million in Watered Stock
4 src Jay Gould | | confirmed |
| 1867-01-01 | Vanderbilt Consolidates New York Central Railroad - Creates First Giant Railroad System
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1850-08-22 | Allan Pinkerton Founds North-Western Police Agency, Precursor to Private Intelligence State
2 src Allan Pinkerton · Pinkerton National Detective Agency |
| confirmed |