Timeline

Charles Darwin an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist published On the Origin of Species, a work of scientific literature that is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. ²

after the election of Abraham Lincoln as President, a group of southern states formed the Confederate States of America and declared war. The Confederates surrendered in 1865. The conflict was the costliest and deadliest war ever fought on American soil. Millions of were killed, millions more injured, and the South left in ruin. ⁵

The Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution was adopted on, as one
of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Section 1: “. . . No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Section 4 states: “The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by
law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in
suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned . . . .”

Southern ministers had gradually come to believe that the defeat of the Confederacy was the result of the prevalence of drunkenness, card playing,
cussing, and dancing among Confederate troops and civilians. A group of Christian bible scholars met for the first time at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, near Niagara Falls to
established the principles of Christian fundamentalism. The Niagara Bible Conference met every year from 1883 through 1897. ⁸

the Sherman Silver Purchase Act became a federal law. It increased the
amount of silver the government was required to purchase on a recurrent monthly basis
to 4.5 million ounces. It had been passed in response to the growing complaints of
farmers' and miners' interests. Farmers had immense debts that could not be paid off due
to deflation. It would boost the economy and cause inflation, allowing them to pay their
debts with cheaper dollars. Mining companies had extracted vast quantities of silver from
western mines, resulting in oversupply which drove down the price of their product, often
to below the point at which the silver could be profitably extracted. They hoped to enlist
the government to increase the demand for silver. ¹⁰

The panic subsided almost miraculously when Roosevelt announced his suspension of US anti-trust laws. Morgan got his hands on the Tennessee Coal and Iron ore resources, which the Trust Company of America had controlled. The false rumors stopped appearing in the papers and the bank returned to its normal business.²²

The Eugenics Record Office (ERO) opened its doors and began gathered biological and social information about the American population. It was established by the Carnegie Institution and financed primarily by Mary Harriman (widow of railroad baron E. H. Harriman) and the Rockefeller Foundation.²⁴ It identified ten classes as “socially unfit” and “targeted for elimination”: feebleminded, paupers, inebriates (alcoholics), criminals (including petty criminals and for nonpayment of fines), epileptics, insane, constitutionally weak, predisposed to specific diseases, deformed, and those with defective sense organs (deaf, blind or mute)²⁵

The 16th Amendment established Congress's right to impose a Federal Income Tax.

Germany declares war on Russia, France, and Belgium. Britain declares war on Germany. Austria declares war on Russia. Montenegro declares war on Austria. France declares war on Austria. Britain declares war on Austria. Montenegro declares war on Germany. Japan declares war on Germany. Austria declares war on Belgium. 

British ocean liner is torpedoed by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland. Nearly 1,200 people are killed, including 128 U.S. citizens. The ship had been carrying over 170 tons of rifle ammunition and artillery shells, and Germany treated the ship like a legitimate target in a declared war zone.

President Wilson used an Executive Order to create the Committee on Public Information (CPI). Its mission was the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.³⁰ The invisible government tends to be concentrated in the hands of the few because of the expense of manipulating the social machinery which controls the opinions and habits of the masses. ³¹

After months of delays, the Soviet government concludes a separate peace with the Central Powers. Russia surrenders its claim to Ukraine, to its Polish and Baltic territories, and to Finland.

Kaiser Wilhelm II proclaims that Germany will become a republic.

The Constitution of the German Empire becomes law. The German people, united in all their racial elements, and inspired by the will to renew and strengthen their Reich in liberty and justice, to preserve peace at home and abroad and to foster social progress . . . All Germans are equal before the law. Men and women have the same fundamental civil rights and duties.”

The Brush Mountain hill folk clan, like many of the clans scattered throughout the isolated Appalachian slopes, lived in abject poverty. On a typical day, the Montgomery County Sheriff drove up unannounced onto Brush Mountain and began one of his many raids against the hill families considered socially inadequate. The warrants stated the people he rounded up were classified as “unfit” - “unfit to exist in nature.”³³ On this day, the Montgomery County Sheriff grabbed six brothers from one family. Earlier they had taken the sister of brothers and two cousins. They were taken special destinations, one of which was the Western State Hospital. It was formerly known as the Western Lunatic Asylum. It was once known for its so-called “moral therapy” devised by Director Dr. Francis T. Stribling, who later became one of the thirteen founding members of the American Psychiatric Association.

Now Western State Hospital housed not only those deemed insane, but also those deemed “feebleminded.” Even though no one was quite sure how “feebleminded” was defined, county authorities were certain that “the hill folk were indeed mentally and genetically defective.” Therefore, they would not be permitted to breed more of “their kind.”³⁴ These simple mountain people were systematically sterilized under a Virginia law compelling such operations for those ruled unfit. Often, the teenage boys and girls placed under the surgeon’s knife did not really comprehend the ramifications. Sometimes they were told they were undergoing an appendectomy or some other unspecified procedure. Generally, they were released after the operation. Many did not discover why they could not bear children until decades later when the truth was finally revealed to them by local Virginia investigative reporters and government reformers.³⁵

Virginia’s victims were among some 60,000 Americans who were forcibly sterilized across the United States, almost half of them lived in California.³⁶

By 1945, 15,000,000 soldiers and 45,000,000 civilians would be dead.
25,000,000 soldiers would be wounded.

How did this happen? Konrad Lorenz, animal behaviorist, Nobel laureate, was cofounder of the field of ethology, a regular on nature TV programs. Grandfatherly Konrad, in his Austrian shorts and suspenders, being followed by his imprinted baby geese. Below is a an example of what he taught his viewers:

The immensely high reproduction rate in the moral imbecile has long been established . . . Socially inferior human material is enabled . . . to penetrate and finally to annihilate the healthy nation. The selection for toughness, heroism, social utility . . . must be accomplished by some human institution of mankind, in default of selective factors, is not to be ruined by domestication- induced degeneracy. The racial idea as the basis of our state has already accomplished much in this respect. We must -- and should — rely on the healthy feelings of our Best and charge them . . . with the extermination of elements of the population loaded with dregs.”