U.S. Government

Pfizer Reports $22 Billion Profit on COVID-19 Vaccine, One of Most Profitable Drugs in History

2021-11-02 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

In November 2021, Pfizer reported annual profits of $21.98 billion on revenues of $81.29 billion for 2021, with COVID-19 vaccine sales of $36.7 billion accounting for 45% of total company revenue. The COVID-19 vaccine became one of the most financially successful pharmaceutical products in history, …

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Carlisle Indian Industrial School Opens With "Kill the Indian, Save the Man" Mission of Cultural Genocide

1879-10-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt opens the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania under U.S. government authorization, establishing the blueprint for more than 400 federal Indian boarding schools nationwide designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children through cultural …

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

1868-04-29 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

The United States Government and the Sioux Nation sign the Fort Laramie Treaty, establishing the Great Sioux Reservation and guaranteeing the Sioux “absolute and undisturbed use and occupancy” of all present-day South Dakota west of the Missouri River, including the sacred Black Hills …

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

1848-02-02 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed February 2, 1848, ends the Mexican-American War by forcing Mexico to cede 55 percent of its territory—including present-day California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming—to the United States for …

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Samuel Colt Rescues Failing Gun Company with Mexican War Government Contract

1847-01-04 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 6/10

On January 4, 1847, Connecticut gun manufacturer Samuel Colt rescues the future of his faltering gun company by winning a contract to provide the U.S. government with 1,000 of his .44 caliber revolvers for use in the Mexican-American War. Colt had received a U.S. patent for a revolver mechanism in …

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

1845-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

John L. O’Sullivan coins the term “Manifest Destiny” in 1845 to describe the expansionist belief that American settlers are destined to expand westward across North America, and that this expansion is both obvious (manifest) and certain (destiny). The ideology is rooted in American …

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