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Development of the Joint Stock Company
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17th Century Mercantilism
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Self-Sufficient Farms
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Adam Smith and Wealth of Nations
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Growth of Manufacturing/Textile mills
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Erie Canal and Canal Revolution
Was underconstruction since 1817. It was the first transportation system between the eastern seaboard and the western interior of the United States that did not require portage, was faster than carts pulled by draft animals, and cut transport costs by 95%. It fostered a population surge in western New York State. National significance of the canal systems is it is the most successful and influential human-buildt waterway and one of the most important works of civil engineering and construction -
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Increased Boom and Bust Cycles
Ruthless competition, monopolies, exploitation of workers and the beginning of labor organization, government pro-business,inequality of income, farmers suffer -
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Reforms
Interstate Commerce Act: was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices.
Sherman Antitrust Act: Prohibits certain business activities that reduce competition in the marketplace, and requires the US fed gov't to investigate and pursue trusts, companies, and org suspected of being in violation
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Roaring Twenties
Age of dramatic social and political changes. More Americans lived in cities than on farms. Nation's total weath more than doubled. Swept many Americans into an affluent but unfamiliar "comsumer society". -
Wall Street Crash, Great Depression, Mobilization for WWII
- Was the most devastating stock market crash, signaled beginning of the Great Depression
- Lasted 10 years and affected all Western industrialized countries -Ended in 1941 the onset of american mobilization for WWII at the end of 1941
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The Post-War Economic Boom
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Great Society / War on Poverty
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1970s Inflation and Nixonomics
[Nixonomics](en.m.wikipedia.org/Nixonomics) -
Arab Oil Embargo
[1973 Oil Crisis](en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis)Oil Crisis -
1980s Reagonomics
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Economic Slump
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The Great Recession