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— 15 entries in the record.
15
events
From
Jul 13, 1787
To
Mar 18, 2014
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1787 · 1 event
1803 · 1 event
1817 · 1 event
1819 · 1 event
1820 · 1 event
1843 · 1 event
1844 · 1 event
1845 · 1 event
1846 · 3 events
1853 · 1 event
1898 · 2 events
2014 · 1 event
1787
2014
Date
Event
Lanes
Status
2014-03-18
Putin Formally Signs Treaty Annexing Crimea, Escalating International Conflict
3 src
Vladimir Putin · Joe Biden · Angela Merkel
confirmed
1898-07-07
Hawaii Annexation - U.S. Legitimizes Corporate Coup Against Monarchy
3 src
William McKinley · Sanford B. Dole · U.S. Marines
confirmed
1898-04-25
Spanish-American War Begins - Imperial Expansion Under Humanitarian Pretext
3 src
William McKinley · Theodore Roosevelt · U.S. Navy · Spanish Empire
confirmed
1853-03-04
Pierce Inauguration Falsely Claims Slavery Question Settled While Planning Expansion
3 src
Franklin Pierce · Stephen A. Douglas · Democratic Party
confirmed
1846-08-08
Wilmot Proviso Triggers Sectional Crisis Over Slavery in Conquered Mexican Territory
4 src
James K. Polk · U.S. House of Representatives · U.S. Senate · Northern Democrats · +1
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
1846-05-11
Polk Deceives Congress into War Declaration with False American Blood Claims
3 src
James K. Polk · U.S. Congress · Abraham Lincoln · Whig Party
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
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
1820-03-03
Missouri Compromise Institutionalizes Slavery Expansion Through Sectional Bargaining
3 src
Henry Clay · James Monroe · U.S. Congress
confirmed
1819-02-22
Adams-Onís Treaty Acquires Florida Through Coerced Spanish Cession After Jackson's Unauthorized Invasion
3 src
James Monroe
confirmed
1817-11-21
First Seminole War Begins as Jackson Invades Spanish Florida to Recapture Enslaved People
3 src
Spanish Empire · U.S. War Department
confirmed
1803-10-20
Louisiana Purchase Demonstrates Jefferson Constitutional Hypocrisy and Executive Power Expansion
3 src
Thomas Jefferson · U.S. Senate · France
confirmed
1787-07-13
Northwest Ordinance Prohibits Slavery While Mandating Fugitive Slave Returns
3 src
Southern state delegates · Slaveholders
confirmed