This title presents vast era overviews, event and movement profiles, biographies, business and industry profiles, geographic profiles, and more.

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