Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History

Editor: Riggs, Thomas
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Gale

Price: Core Collection Only
ISBN: 978-1-57302-753-3
Category: Business, Finance & Economics - Economics
Image Count: 462
Book Status: Available
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Table of Contents

  • Editorial Board
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • List of Academic Reviewers
  • Thematic Outline of Contents
  • Chronology
  • Volume 1
  • A
  • Abolition Movement
  • Adams-Onís Treaty
  • Adkins v. Children's Hospital (1923)
  • Advertising Industry
  • Aerospace Industry
  • Affirmative Action
  • Affordable Care Act (2010)
  • Africa, Economic Relations with the United States
  • Africans Arrive in North America
  • Age of Prosperity and Machines, 1921–28 (Overview)
  • Age of Uncertainty, The
  • Aggregate Demand
  • Aggregate Supply
  • Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933
  • Agricultural Equipment Industry
  • Agriculture Industry
  • Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
  • AIDS Crisis
  • Air Conditioning
  • Air Traffic Controllers' Strike
  • Airline Deregulation
  • Airline Industry
  • Alabama, Economic History of
  • Alabama Claims
  • Alaska, Economic History of
  • Alaska Pipeline
  • Alaska Purchase Draws New Wave of Fortune Seekers to Former Russian Territory
  • Alcohol Industry
  • Algonquian Peoples
  • Allocate
  • Amazon.Com
  • American Colonization Society
  • American Federation of Labor (AFL)
  • American Indian Movement (AIM)
  • American Plan Seeks to Quash Labor Movement
  • American Railroads and the Transformation of the Antebellum Economy
  • American Railway Union (ARU)
  • American Revolution
  • American System of Manufactures
  • American Tobacco Company
  • Americanization Movement
  • Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA)
  • Amusement Parks
  • Angel Island
  • Appalachian Mountains
  • Apple, Inc.
  • Appreciation
  • Arbitration
  • Arizona, Economic History of
  • Arkansas, Economic History of
  • Armour and Swift Become Meat Kings of Chicago
  • Articles of Confederation
  • ASARCO
  • Asian Financial Crisis
  • Assembly-Line Manufacturing
  • Assets
  • Association of Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics
  • AT&T Corporation
  • Atlantic Slave Trade
  • Automotive Industry
  • Automotive Industry Bailout
  • B
  • Baby Boom
  • Back Country
  • Bacon's Rebellion
  • Balance of Payments
  • Balance of Trade
  • Balanced Budget Amendment
  • Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
  • Bank Money
  • Bank of America
  • Bank of the United States, First
  • Bank of the United States, Second
  • Bank War Pits President Jackson against Second Bank of the United States
  • Bankruptcy Law
  • Barbary States
  • Barter
  • Bear and Bull Markets
  • Beringia
  • Berkshire Hathaway
  • Bessemer Process
  • Bethune Founds National Council of Negro Women
  • B. F. Goodrich
  • Bicycles
  • Big Stick Diplomacy
  • Bilingual Education
  • Bimetallism
  • Biotechnology Industry
  • Birth Control Movement
  • Birth Control Pill
  • Bison, Extermination of the
  • Black & Decker Corporation
  • Black Codes
  • Black Hawk War
  • Bland-Allison Act (1878)
  • Blockades
  • Boeing Company
  • Boll Weevil Infestation
  • Bonanza Farms
  • Bonds
  • Bonneville Power Administration (BPA)
  • Book Publishing Industry
  • Borden, Inc.
  • Boston Massacre
  • Boston Tea Party
  • Boycott
  • Brand Names
  • Bretton Woods Agreement
  • Brooklyn Bridge
  • Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP)
  • Brown v. Board of Education
  • Brunswick Corporation
  • Budget Deficits
  • Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
  • Bush Tax Cuts
  • Business Cycles
  • C
  • California, Economic History of
  • Canada, Trade with the United States Since the Nineteenth Century
  • Canning
  • Capital
  • Capital Gains
  • Capital Goods
  • Capitalism
  • Caribbean and West Indies, Trade with the United States from Colonial Times through the Nineteenth Century
  • Carpetbaggers
  • Cartels
  • Cash Crops
  • Caterpillar, Inc.
  • Cattle Drives
  • Cattle Industry
  • Central Bank
  • Central Pacific Railroad
  • Chain Stores
  • Chemical Industry
  • Cherokee Indian Cases (1830s)
  • Chicago Board of Trade
  • Chicago Fire of 1871
  • Child Labor
  • China, Economic Relations with the United States Since 1980
  • Chinese Exclusion Act
  • Chrysler Corporation
  • Circular Flow of Economic Activity
  • Citibank
  • Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875
  • Civil Rights Movement
  • Civil Service Act (1883)
  • Civil War, Economic Causes of the
  • Civil War, Economic Impact of the
  • Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861–77 (Overview)
  • Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
  • Clayton Antitrust Act
  • Climate Change
  • Cliometrics
  • Clipper Ships
  • Closed Shop
  • Coal Industry
  • Coca-Cola Beverages
  • Cold War
  • Collateral
  • Collective Bargaining
  • Colonial Governance: Corporate, Proprietary, and Royal
  • Colonial Wealth Distribution
  • Colorado, Economic History of
  • Colt's Manufacturing Company
  • Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
  • Columbian Exchange
  • Command Economy
  • Commodities
  • Company Towns
  • Comparative Advantage
  • Competition
  • Compromise of 1850
  • Computer Industry
  • Comstock Lode
  • Concept of the Corporation
  • Confederate Dollar
  • Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
  • Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
  • Connecticut, Economic History of
  • Conservation Movement
  • Conservatism
  • Consolidation
  • Constitution, Economic Benefits of the
  • Constitutional Convention
  • Consumer Credit
  • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
  • Consumer Goods
  • Consumer Price Index
  • Consumption
  • Contemporary World, 1992 to the Present (Overview)
  • Continental Congress, Second
  • Continentals
  • Contracts Clause
  • Convention of 1818
  • Convict Leasing
  • Copyright
  • Corporate Restructuring
  • Corporate Welfare
  • Corporations
  • Cosmetics Industry
  • Cost-of-Living Index
  • Cotton Gin Turns Cotton into Leading Cash Crop, Increases Demand for Slave Labor
  • Council of Energy Resource Tribes (CERT)
  • Council of National Defense (CND)
  • Cow Towns
  • Cowboys
  • Coxey's Army Marches on Washington, D.C.
  • Credit
  • Crédit Mobilier Scandal
  • Credit Unions
  • “Cross of Gold” Speech
  • Cuba, Economic Relations with the United States before 1959
  • Currency
  • Customs Duties
  • D
  • Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)
  • Dawes General Allotment Act (1887)
  • Debts
  • Deere's Modern Steel Plow Cuts through Prairie Sod with Ease
  • Defense Spending
  • Deflation
  • Deindustrialization
  • Delaware, Economic History of
  • Dell, Inc.
  • Department Stores
  • Depreciation
  • Derivatives
  • Dingley Tariff Act (1897)
  • Disability Rights Movement
  • Discount Rate
  • Discrimination
  • Disincentives
  • Disposable Income
  • Dividends
  • Division of Labor
  • Dixie Highway
  • Dollar Diplomacy
  • Dot-Com Bubble
  • Dow Jones Industrial Average
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford
  • Dry Farming
  • Dupont Company
  • Durable Goods
  • Dust Bowl
  • E
  • E-Commerce Industry
  • Earned Income Tax Credit
  • Eastern Woodlands Indians
  • Eastman Kodak
  • Econometrics
  • Economic Development, Federal Involvement in
  • Economic Growth
  • Economic Inequality in the United States, History of
  • Economic Opportunity Act (1964)
  • Economies of Scale
  • Education, Role in U.S. Economic Growth
  • Education Policy
  • Efficiency
  • Eighteenth Amendment (1919)
  • Electrification
  • Ellis Island
  • Emancipation Proclamation
  • Embargo
  • Embargo Act (1807)
  • Emergency Price Control Act (1942)
  • Encomienda
  • Entertainment Industry
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • Environmentalism
  • Equity
  • Erie Canal, Building of
  • Estate Tax
  • European Loans during the American Revolution
  • Eurozone, Economic Relations with the United States in the Twenty-First Century
  • Exchange Rates
  • Excise Tax
  • Executive Pay
  • Exodusters
  • Expansionism and the Antebellum Years, 1815–69 (Overview)
  • Exports
  • Externalities
  • Exxon Mobil Corporation
  • F
  • Facebook
  • Fair Employment Practices
  • Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA)
  • Fair Trade Movement
  • Family and Medical Leave Act (1993)
  • Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
  • Far Western Indians
  • Farm Credit Administration (FCA)
  • Farm Policy
  • Farmers' Protest Movements
  • Fashion Industry
  • Fast Food Industry
  • Federal Deficit Spending
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
  • Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
  • Federal Reserve Act (1913)
  • Federal Reserve System
  • Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
  • Federalism
  • Federalist Papers
  • Fifteenth Amendment (1870)
  • Film Industry
  • Financial Panic
  • Fiscal Policy
  • Fishing Industry (COMMERCIAL)
  • Five Civilized Tribes
  • Fixed Income
  • Fletcher v. Peck
  • Florida, Economic History of
  • Food Processing Industry
  • Food Stamps
  • Forbes
  • Ford Motor Company
  • Fordism
  • Fordney-Mccumber Tariff (1922)
  • Foreign Investment in the United States
  • Foreign Investment of U.S. Companies Abroad
  • Forest Reserve Act (1891)
  • Fourteenth Amendment (1868)
  • Fractional Reserve Banking
  • France, Economic Relations with the United States in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
  • Franchises
  • Free Enterprise
  • Free Silver Movement
  • Free Trade
  • Freedmen's Bureau
  • French and Indian War
  • Fringe Benefits
  • Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
  • Full Employment Act of 1946
  • Fuller Popularizes Geodesic Dome
  • Furniture Industry
  • Futures Trading
  • Volume 2
  • G
  • Gadsden Purchase of 1853
  • Gallup Poll
  • GE
  • Gender Wage Gap
  • General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
  • General Motors Corporation
  • Georgia, Economic History of
  • Gerber Products Company
  • Ghettos
  • G.I. Bill (1944)
  • Gillette Company
  • Glass-Steagall Banking Act (1933)
  • Global Economy
  • Gold Resumption Act (1873)
  • Gold Rush of 1849
  • Gold Standard
  • Gold Standard Act
  • Google
  • Government Regulation of Business Since the New Deal
  • Government-Sponsored Enterprises
  • Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (1999)
  • Grand Banks
  • Granger Movement
  • Graying of America
  • Great Britain, Economic Relations with the United States from the Colonial Era through the Nineteenth Century
  • Great Depression
  • Great Depression and World War II, 1929–45 (Overview)
  • Great Inflation
  • Great Migration, 1910–70
  • Great Railroad Strike of 1877 becomes First Nationwide Labor Strike in U.S. History
  • Great Society
  • Green Party
  • Greenback Party
  • Greenbacks
  • Gross Domestic Product and Gross National Product
  • H
  • Hammer v. Dagenhart
  • Harley-Davidson, Inc.
  • Harpers Ferry Raid Heightens Regional Tensions over Slavery
  • Hawaii, Economic History of
  • Haymarket Bombing
  • Health Care Industry
  • Helms-Burton Act Strengthens U.S. Economic Embargo of Cuba
  • Hepburn Act (1906)
  • Hershey Foods Corporation
  • High School Movement
  • H. J. Heinz Company
  • Hollerith's Tabulating Machine: Prototype of the Modern Digital Computer
  • Hollywood
  • Home Front
  • Home Ownership and the Real Estate Market in the Twentieth Century
  • Homestead Act of 1862
  • Homestead Steel Strike
  • Hoover Dam
  • Hoovervilles
  • Horses
  • Hospitality Industry
  • Howard Johnson International, Inc.
  • Human Capital
  • I
  • Iacocca Resurrects Chrysler
  • Idaho, Economic History of
  • Illegal Drugs
  • Illinois, Economic History of
  • Immigrant Enclaves
  • Immigration, History and Effects of
  • Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
  • Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha
  • Immigration Restriction
  • Imperialism
  • Imports
  • Incentives
  • Income
  • Income Gap
  • Income Tax
  • Indentured Servants
  • Independence, Economic Impact of
  • India, Economic Relations with the United States Since 1947
  • Indian Removal Act (1830)
  • Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
  • Indiana, Economic History of
  • Industrial Expansion and the Gilded Age, 1870–99 (Overview)
  • Industrial Policy
  • Industrial Revolution
  • Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
  • Industrialization
  • Infant Industry
  • Inflation
  • Information Technology Industry
  • Infrastructure
  • Initial Public Offering
  • “Institutions”
  • Insurance Industry
  • Intellectual Property in the Digital Age
  • Interest
  • Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
  • Internal Transportation, Late Nineteenth Century to the Present
  • International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT)
  • International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)
  • International Monetary Fund (IMF)
  • Internet and the Economy
  • Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
  • Interstate Commerce: Regulation and Deregulation
  • Interstate Highway Act
  • Intolerable Acts (1774)
  • Investments
  • Iowa, Economic History of
  • Ironclads
  • Iroquois Confederacy
  • Irrigation
  • Isolationism
  • J
  • Jacksonian Economy, The
  • Japan, Economic Relations with the United States Since 1945
  • Japan, Opening of
  • Jay Treaty
  • Jim Crow Laws
  • Johnson v. M'Intosh (1823)
  • Joint Stock Companies
  • Journal of Economic History
  • Jungle, The
  • Junk Bonds
  • K
  • Kansas, Economic History of
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
  • Keelboats
  • Kellogg Company
  • Kelsey-Hayes
  • Kentucky, Economic History Of
  • Keynesian Economic Theory
  • Kimberly-Clark Corporation
  • Klondike Gold Strike
  • Knights of Labor (KOL)
  • Korean War
  • Kroger Company
  • Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
  • L
  • Labor Movement
  • Laffer Curve
  • Laissez-Faire
  • Land-Grant Colleges
  • Land O'Lakes, Inc.
  • Land Ordinance of 1785
  • Land Policy
  • L'Anse Aux Meadows
  • Legal Tender
  • Lend-Lease Act (1941)
  • Lever Food and Fuel Control Act (1917)
  • Levittown Promises Affordable Housing for Returning GIS
  • Lewis and Clark Expedition Reveals Vast Economic Potential of Pacific Northwest
  • Liberalism
  • Libertarianism
  • Liberty Bonds
  • Liberty Ships
  • Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (2009)
  • Limited Partnerships
  • Lincoln Highway
  • Lobbying
  • Lochner v. New York (1905)
  • Long Unveils “Share Our Wealth” Plan in National Radio Address
  • Louisiana, Economic History of
  • Louisiana Purchase
  • Lowell System of Labor
  • Loyalists
  • Lumber Industry
  • M
  • Macroeconomics
  • Mail-Order Houses
  • Maine, Economic History of
  • Manifest Destiny
  • Mann-Elkins Act (1910)
  • Manpower in Economic Growth
  • Marijuana Legalization
  • Market Revolution
  • Markets
  • Marshall Plan
  • Maryland, Economic History of
  • Mass Incarceration
  • Mass Production
  • Mass Transit
  • Massachusetts, Economic History of
  • Maysville Road Bill
  • Maytag Corporation
  • McCarthyism
  • McCormick Reaper
  • McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
  • McDonald's Corporation
  • McFadden Act (1927)
  • McGraw-Hill Companies
  • Medicaid
  • Medicare
  • Medium of Exchange
  • Mercantilism
  • Mercenaries
  • Mergers
  • Merrill Lynch
  • Mesa Verde
  • Mexican Bailout Halts Collapse of Peso
  • Mexican Cession
  • Mexico
  • Michigan, Economic History of
  • Microeconomics
  • Microsoft Corporation
  • Middle East, Economic Relations with the United States Since the Early Twentieth Century
  • Middle Passage
  • Migrant Workers
  • Military Industrial Complex
  • Minimum-Wage Law
  • Mining Industry
  • Minnesota, Economic History of
  • Mint Act (1792)
  • Mississippi, Economic History of
  • Mississippi River
  • Missouri, Economic History of
  • Missouri Compromise
  • Missouri River
  • Molasses Act (1733)
  • Monetary Policy
  • Money
  • Money Supply
  • Monopolies
  • Monopolies, History of
  • Monroe Doctrine
  • Montana, Economic History of
  • Montgomery Ward and Co.
  • Morris Plan Banks
  • Mortgage
  • Muckrakers Expose Corporate and Political Dirt
  • Muller v. State of Oregon (1908)
  • Multilevel Marketing
  • Multinational Enterprises
  • Multiplier
  • Munn v. Illinois (1877)
  • Music Industry
  • Mutual Funds
  • N
  • Nabisco Foods Group
  • Napoleonic Wars
  • Nat Turner's Rebellion
  • Natchez Trace
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
  • National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ)
  • National Bank Act of 1863
  • National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
  • National Bureau of Economic Research
  • National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
  • National Debt
  • National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)
  • National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
  • National Monetary Commission (NMC)
  • National Recovery Administration (NRA)
  • National Road
  • National War Labor Board (NWLB)
  • Nationalism
  • Native American Policy
  • Native Americans, Treatment of by Spain and England
  • Native-Euroamerican Trade
  • Natural Monopolies
  • Naval Stores
  • Navigation Acts
  • Nebraska, Economic History of
  • Neoclassical Synthesis
  • Nevada, Economic History of
  • New Deal
  • New Deal: Reform or Revolution
  • New France
  • New Hampshire, Economic History of
  • New Jersey, Economic History of
  • New Mexico, Economic History of
  • New Netherland
  • New Spain, Viceroyalty of
  • New York, Economic History of
  • New York Central Railroad
  • New York City
  • New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
  • Newlands Reclamation Act (1902)
  • Nielsen Ratings Transform Market Research
  • Nineteenth Amendment (1920)
  • No-Fault Divorce Law
  • Nonprofit Organizations
  • Norris-Laguardia Act (1932)
  • North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
  • North Carolina, Economic History of
  • North Dakota, Economic History of
  • Northern Securities v. United States
  • Northland, America's First Shopping Mall, Opens Outside Detroit, MI
  • Northwest Ordinance of 1787
  • Northwest Passage
  • Northwestern Coast Indians
  • Nullification
  • O
  • Objectivism
  • Occupy Wall Street
  • Office for Emergency Management (OEM)
  • Office of Price Administration (OPA)
  • Office Work in the Digital Age
  • Ohio, Economic History of
  • Ohio River Valley
  • Oil Depletion Allowances
  • Oklahoma, Economic History of
  • Old Northwest
  • Old Southwest
  • Oligopolies
  • Opec Oil Embargo Leads to Long Lines at U.S. Pumps
  • Open Door Policy
  • Open Range
  • Opportunity Cost
  • Oregon, Economic History of
  • Oregon Trail
  • Oregon Treaty
  • Other America, The
  • Otis Elevator Company, Inc.
  • Outsourcing
  • Over-the-Counter Securities Market
  • Overland Trail
  • Overman Act (1918)
  • P
  • Pacific Rim
  • Packers and Stockyards Act (1921)
  • Paleo-Indians
  • Panama Canal
  • Panic of 1819
  • Panic of 1837
  • Panic of 1907
  • Panic of 2008, Causes of the
  • Panic of 2008, Federal Response to the
  • Panics of the Late Nineteenth Century
  • Paper Industry
  • Partnerships
  • Patents
  • Pay Equity
  • Pennsylvania, Economic History of
  • Pennsylvania Main Line
  • Pennsylvania Railroad
  • Penny Press
  • Pensions
  • Per Capita Income
  • Perkins Becomes Secretary of Labor, First Female Cabinet Officer in U.S. Government
  • Persian Gulf and Iraq Wars
  • Personal Computers
  • Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (1996)
  • Petroleum Industry
  • Pharmaceutical Industry
  • Philanthropy in the Twentieth Century
  • Philip Morris
  • Philippines
  • Physical Capital
  • Pickens Declares CEO's Job Is to Create Wealth for Shareholders
  • Pieces of Eight
  • Pike's Expedition
  • Pilgrims
  • Pinckney Treaty
  • Pinkerton National Detective Agency
  • Piracy
  • Plains Indians
  • Plantations
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
  • Poll Tax
  • Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Company
  • Pony Express
  • Ponzi Schemes
  • Poor Richard's Almanack
  • Popular Sovereignty
  • Populism
  • Postum Cereal Company
  • Postwar Boom
  • Postwar Prosperity, 1946–72 (Overview)
  • Poverty
  • PPG Industries
  • Prairie
  • Preemption Act of 1841
  • Price/Earnings (P/E) Ratio
  • Prices
  • Prime Rate
  • Prison Industrial Complex
  • Privacy in the Digital Age
  • Private Property Rights
  • Private Sector
  • Privateering
  • Privatization
  • Proclamation of 1763
  • Procter and Gamble Company
  • Productivity
  • Profits
  • Progress and Poverty
  • Progressive Era and World War I, 1890–1920 (Overview)
  • Progressive Movement
  • Prohibition
  • Promise of American Life, The
  • Protectionism
  • Protectorates
  • Public Good
  • Public Health Campaigns
  • Public Relations
  • Public Sector
  • Puerto Rico
  • Pullman Palace Car Company
  • Pullman Strike
  • Pure Food and Drug Act
  • Puritanism
  • Putting-Out System
  • Pyramiding Reserves
  • Volume 3
  • Q
  • Quality Control
  • Quantitative Easing
  • Quebec Act (1774)
  • Quotas
  • R
  • Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (1970)
  • Radio
  • Radio Acts
  • Rag Money
  • Railroad Gauges, Standardization of
  • Railroad Industry
  • Railroad War Board
  • Railroads, Federal Land Grants to the
  • Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History
  • Rationing
  • RCA
  • Reagan Implements “New Federalism” for Native Americans
  • Reaganomics
  • Real Wages
  • Rebates
  • Recession
  • Reconstruction
  • Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
  • Recycling
  • Regulation
  • Renewable Energy Industry
  • Report on Manufactures
  • Research and Development
  • Reservation Economies Since the 1930s
  • Reservations
  • Retail Industry
  • Retirement
  • Revenues
  • Revolutionary War, Federalism, and the Early National Period, 1763–1815 (Overview)
  • Rhode Island, Economic History of
  • Rhode Island System of Labor
  • Right-to-Work Laws
  • Ripple Effects
  • Robber Barons
  • Roe v. Wade (1973)
  • Rosenwald Schools
  • RR Donnelley
  • Rubbermaid
  • Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
  • Rust Belt
  • S
  • Saint Lawrence Seaway
  • Samuel Slater Builds the First Factory
  • Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company
  • Santa Fe
  • Santa Fe Trail
  • Savings
  • Savings and Loan Associations
  • Savings and Loan Failures
  • Scalawags
  • Scandals Involving the U.S. Government and Big Business
  • Scarcity
  • Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (1935)
  • Sears, Roebuck and Co.
  • Seasonal Unemployment
  • Second Industrial Revolution
  • Second New Deal
  • Sectionalism
  • Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
  • Selective Service System
  • September 11, 2001
  • Settlement and Economic Development: The Colonies to 1763 (Overview)
  • Settlement House Movement
  • Sewers and Indoor Plumbing
  • Sharecropping
  • Shays' Rebellion
  • Sheppard-Towner Act (1921)
  • Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
  • Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
  • Shipbuilding Industry
  • Shortages
  • Silicon Valley Becomes Epicenter of Burgeoning High-Tech Industry
  • Singer Invents First Mass-Produced Sewing Machine
  • Sit-Down Strikes
  • Sixteenth Amendment (1913)
  • Skyscrapers
  • Slaughterhouse Cases
  • Slave Codes
  • Slavery
  • Smallpox Devastates Indigenous Populations
  • Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act (1930)
  • Social Class
  • Social Gospel Movement
  • Social Media
  • Social Safety Net
  • Social Security Act (1935)
  • Socialism
  • Sole Proprietorships
  • Soo Locks
  • South America, Economic Relations with the United States Since the Early Nineteenth Century
  • South Carolina, Economic History of
  • South Dakota, Economic History of
  • Southwestern Indians
  • Sovereignty
  • Space Race
  • Spanish-American War
  • Spanish-Language Economy
  • Special Interest Groups
  • Specie
  • Speculation
  • Speculative Bubble
  • Spinning Mills
  • Spoils System
  • Sports Industry (Professional)
  • Springfield Armory
  • Stagflation
  • Stamp Act Sparks Public Outrage throughout Colonies
  • Standard & Poor's
  • Standard of Living
  • Standard Oil Company
  • Standard Time
  • Staple-Crop Production
  • Starbucks
  • States' Rights
  • Steamboat Act of 1852
  • Steamboats
  • Steel Industry
  • Stock Market
  • Stock Market Crash of 1929
  • Stocks
  • Streetcars
  • Strikes
  • Structural Unemployment
  • Studebaker Unable to Compete with “Big Three” Automakers
  • Subprime Lending
  • Subsidies
  • Subsistence Agriculture
  • Suburbs
  • Sugar Act (1764)
  • Sunbelt
  • Supply and Demand
  • Supply-Side Economics
  • Surpluses
  • T
  • Taft-Hartley Act (1947)
  • Tallmadge Amendment
  • Tariff of Abominations (1828)
  • Tariffs
  • Taxation Systems: Progressive, Regressive, and Proportional
  • Taylorism
  • Tea Party
  • Tecumseh
  • Telecommunications Industry
  • Telegraph
  • Television
  • Tenant Farming
  • Tenements
  • Tennessee, Economic History of
  • Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
  • Texas, Economic History of
  • Texas Annexation
  • Texas Company (Texaco)
  • Textile Industry (Cotton)
  • Thirteenth Amendment (1865)
  • Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
  • Tire and Rubber Industry
  • Tobacco Industry
  • Tordesillas, Treaty of
  • Townsend Clubs
  • Townshend Acts (1767)
  • Trade
  • Trade Unions
  • Trademarks
  • Trail of Tears
  • Transatlantic Cable Introduces Telegraph Communication between U.S. and Europe
  • Transcontinental Railroad
  • Transportation Act of 1920
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
  • Tribute Payments
  • Trucking Industry (Commercial)
  • Trust-Busting
  • Trust Funds
  • Trusts, Business
  • Turnpikes
  • Twenty-First Amendment (1933)
  • Tyson Foods
  • U
  • Uncertain Times, 1973–92 (Overview)
  • Underground Economy
  • Underground Railroad
  • Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women
  • Underwood Tariff Act (1913)
  • Unemployment
  • Union Pacific Railroad Company
  • United Airlines
  • United Auto Workers (UAW)
  • United Farm Workers (UFW)
  • United Mine Workers of America (UMWA)
  • United Nations (UN)
  • United Parcel Service of North America (UPS)
  • United States Rubber Company
  • United States Steel Corporation
  • United States v. E. C. Knight
  • United States v. IBM
  • United States v. Microsoft
  • United States v. Standard Oil
  • United Steelworkers of America v. Weber
  • Unsafe at Any Speed
  • Upjohn Company
  • Urban Fiscal Crises of the 1970s
  • Urban Planning
  • Urban Renewal
  • Urbanization
  • U.S. Foreign Trade and Trade Policy Since 1945
  • Utah, Economic History of
  • Utilities Industry
  • Utopian Communities and Communes
  • V
  • Vaudeville
  • Vermont, Economic History of
  • Video Game Industry
  • Vietnam War
  • Virginia, Economic History of
  • Voting Rights Act (1965)
  • W
  • Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway Company vs. Illinois
  • Wage-Price Controls
  • Wages
  • Wal-Mart Stores
  • Walker Becomes First Female Self-Made Millionaire in America
  • Walker's The Science of Wealth Introduces a New Approach to Economic Analysis
  • Wall Street
  • Wall Street Journal
  • Walt Disney Company
  • Wampum
  • War and the Economy
  • War Industries Board (WIB)
  • War Labor Disputes Act (1943)
  • War of 1812
  • War Production Board (WPB)
  • Warner Bros.
  • Washington, Economic History of
  • Washington, D.C.
  • Welfare Policy
  • Welland Canal
  • West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish
  • West Virginia, Economic History of
  • Western Union Corporation
  • Westward Expansion
  • Whaling Industry
  • Whiskey Rebellion
  • Wild and Scenic Rivers Act Prevents Commercial Development
  • Wildcat Banks
  • Wilderness Road
  • Wisconsin, Economic History of
  • Women in the Workplace
  • Women's Movement
  • Women's Suffrage Movement
  • Women's Trade Union League (WTUL)
  • Work Ethic
  • Working Conditions in Factories
  • Works Progress Administration (WPA)
  • World War I
  • World War II
  • Wyoming, Economic History of
  • Y
  • Yellow-Dog Contracts
  • Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company v. Sawyer
  • Z
  • Zenith Is Eclipsed by Asian Electronics Manufacturers