On February 21, 1871, Congress quietly converted the constitutional Republic into a municipal corporation — a silent coup that replaced self-governance with corporate rule. Over the next decades, the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the Trading With the Enemy Act of 1917, and the Emergency Banking Relief Act of 1933 locked the people into permanent financial captivity. Gold was seized, lawful money abolished, and all labor and property pledged as collateral for an ever-growing national debt. What began as a Republic of sovereign people was transformed into a debt farm for bankers — and the people were never told. This is the hidden history of how America was sold.