Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
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
Table of Contents
This title presents vast era overviews, event and movement profiles, biographies, business and industry profiles, geographic profiles, and more.
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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