| Physical description |
1 online resource (xxxvii, 695 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 667-673). |
| Contents |
Adair v. United States (208 U.S. 161) -- Adams, John Quincy -- Adamson Act -- Adams-Onis Treaty -- Addyston Pipe and Steel Company v. U.S. (175 U.S. 211) -- Adjusted Compensation Act of 1936 -- Adkins v. Children's Hospital (261 U.S. 525) -- Advertising -- Affirmative Action -- Affordable Care Act -- Afghanistan War and the War on Terror -- Agency for International Development -- Agribusiness -- Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 -- Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 -- Agricultural Adjustment Administration -- Agricultural Credits Act of 1923 -- Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929 -- Agricultural Marketing Agreement of 1937 -- Agricultural Revolution -- Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 -- Agriculture, Department of -- Agriculture Act of 1948 -- Agriculture Act of 1954 -- Agriculture Act of 1970 -- Agriculture Act of 1973 -- Aid to Families with Dependent Children -- Air Mail Act of 1925 -- Air Mail Act of 1934 -- Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 -- Airline Pilots Association -- Alaska Commercial Company -- Alaska Pipeline -- Aldrich, Winthrop Williams -- Alliance for Progress -- Altmeyer, Arthur Joseph -- Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers -- Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America -- Amazon -- American Agricultural Movement -- American Association for Old Age Security -- American Association of Retired Persons -- American Bimetallic League -- American Colonization Society -- American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) -- American Farm Bureau Federation -- American Federation of Labor -- American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations -- American Federation of Teachers -- American Medical Association -- American Motors Corporation -- American Railway Union -- American Revolution -- American Stock Exchange -- American System -- American Telephone and Telegraph -- Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFP) -- Amtrak -- Annapolis Convention -- Antitrust -- Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 -- Apple -- Arab Oil Embargo of 1973-1974 -- Arbitrage -- Armour, Philip Danforth -- "Arsenal of Democracy" -- Articles of Confederation -- Ashwander et al. v. Tennessee Valley Authority (297 U.S. 288) -- Associationalism -- Assumption of State Debts -- Astor, John Jacob -- Astor, William Vincent -- Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway -- Atlantic Coast Line Railroad -- Atomic Energy Act of 1954 -- Automobile -- Awalt, Francis Gloyd -- Bailey v. Drexel Furniture (259 U.S. 20) -- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad -- Bank Holiday -- Bank of America -- Bank of the United States -- Bankhead Cotton Control Act of 1934 -- Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenancy Act of 1937 -- Banking Act of 1933 -- Banking Act of 1935 -- Barton, Bruce -- Baruch, Bernard Mannes -- Beard, Charles Austin -- Bechtel, Stephen Davison -- Beck, David -- Beef Trust Cases -- Beer Tax Act -- Bell, Alexander Graham -- Benefits -- Bering Sea Controversy -- Berle, Adolf Augustus -- Bernanke, Ben -- Berry, George Leonard -- Biddle, Nicholas -- Bimetallism -- Birdseye, Clarence -- Bitcoin -- Black, Eugene Robert -- Black, John Donald -- Black Belt -- Black Codes -- "Black Monday" -- "Black Monday" -- "Black Thursday" -- "Black Tuesday" -- Bland, Richard Parks -- Blue-Collar -- Boeing, William Edward -- Boll Weevil -- Bolshevism -- Bonneville Power Administration -- Bonus Army -- Borden, Gail -- Boston Police Strike of 1919 -- Boston Tea Party of 1773 -- Boyer, Joseph -- Boyle, William Anthony -- Braceros -- Brain Trust -- Brandeis, Louis Dembitz -- Breadlines -- Bretton Woods Conference -- Brook Farm -- Brookings, Robert Somers -- Brookings Institution -- Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters -- Brown, Harvey Winfield -- Bryan, William Jennings -- Bryce, James -- Bucareli Agreement of 1923 -- Buckmaster, Leland Stanford -- Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 -- Buffalo -- Buffett, Warren -- Bulkeley, Morgan Gardner -- Bull Market -- Burlington Northern Railroad -- Burns, Arthur Frank -- Bush, George H.W. -- Bush, George W. -- Business Advisory Council -- Business Conferences of 1929 -- Business Cycle Committee -- Business-Industry Political Action Committee -- Butterfield, John -- Capone, Alphonse -- Capper, Arthur -- Capper-Tincher Act of 1921 -- Capper-Volstead Act of 1922 -- Carey Act of 1894 -- Carnegie, Andrew -- Carrier, Willis Haviland -- Carson, Rachel -- Carter, Jimmy -- Carter v. Carter Coal Company (298 U.S. 238) -- Cato Institute -- Celler-Kefauver Act of 1950 -- Central Pacific Railroad -- Chamber -- Commerce -- Chandler, Harry -- Chandler Act of 1938 -- Chapin, Roy Dikeman, Jr. -- Chase Manhattan Bank -- Chavez, Cesar Estrada -- Chesapeake and Delaware Canal -- Chesapeake and Ohio Canal -- Chesapeake & Ohio Railway -- Chester, Colby Mitchell -- Chevron -- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad -- Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad -- Chicago & North Western Railway -- Child Labor -- Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 -- Chisholm Trail -- Chrysler, Walter Percy -- Chrysler Corporation -- Cigarmakers' International Union of America -- Citizens' Reconstruction Organization -- Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 -- Civil Aeronautics Board -- Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- Civil Rights Movement -- Civil War -- Civil Works Administration -- Civilian Conservation Corps -- Clark, Joshua Reuben, Jr. -- Clay, Henry -- Clayton, William Lockhart -- Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 -- Clean Air Act of 1970 -- Cleveland, Stephen Grover -- Clinton, Bill -- Closed Shop -- Club of Rome -- Coal Arbitration Board -- Coal Strike of 1919 -- Coffin, Howard Earle -- Cohen, Benjamin Victor -- Coinage Act of 1792 -- Coinage Act of 1834 -- Coin's Financial School -- Cold War -- Columbia River Basin Anti-Speculation Act of 1937 -- Commerce, Department of -- Committee for Economic Development -- Committee for the Nation -- Committee of Forty-Eight -- Committee on Economic Security -- Commodity Credit Corporation -- Commodity Dollar -- Commodity Exchange Act of 1936 -- Commons, John Rogers -- Communications Workers of America -- Company Union -- Comparable Worth -- Compromise of 1850 -- Comstock Lode -- Conference for Progressive Political Action -- Conglomerate -- Congress of Industrial Organizations -- Connally Act of 1935 -- ConocoPhillips -- Conrail -- Conservation of Fish Act of 1934 137 Consortium Chinese Loan of 1911 -- Constitutional Convention -- Consumer Federation of America -- Consumer Rights -- Cooke, Jay -- Corcoran, Thomas Gardiner -- Corn Belt -- Corporate Bankruptcy Act of 1934 -- Corporation -- Cotton Belt -- Council of Economic Advisers -- Council of Energy Resource Tribes -- Cowboy -- Coxey's Army -- Crash of 1929 -- Crash of 1987 -- Credit Cards -- Credit Mobilier -- Credit Unions -- Crime of 1873 -- Crocker, Charles -- Croly, Herbert David -- "Cross of Gold Speech" -- Crowdsourcing -- Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act -- Cuba -- Cummings, Walter J. -- Currie, Lauchlin -- Curtis, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar -- Danbury Hatters Case (208 U.S. 274) -- Dartmouth College v. 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Davis, James John -- Davis, John William -- Dawes, Charles Gates -- Dawes Plan -- Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 -- Day, Dorothy -- DeBow, James Dunwoody Brownson -- Debs, Eugene Victor -- Deere, John -- Defense Plant Corporation -- Defense Supplies Corporation -- Delaware and Hudson Canal -- Delaware and Raritan Canal -- Deposit Act of 1836 -- Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980 -- Depression of 1893 -- Depression of 1920-1921 -- Deregulation -- Desert Land Act of 1877 -- Deskilling -- Dewson, Mary Williams -- Dingley Tariff of 1897 -- Doak, William Nuckles -- Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act -- Dodge, William Earl -- Doheny, Edward -- Doherty, Henry Latham -- Dollar Diplomacy -- Dorrance, John Thompson -- Dot-com Bubble -- Douglas, Donald Wills -- Douglas, Lewis William -- Douglas, William Orville -- Dow, Herbert Henry -- Dow Jones Industrial Average -- Downsizing -- Dred Scott v. Sandford (19 Howard 393, 1857) -- Dryden, John Fairfield -- du Pont, Pierre Samuel -- Dubinsky, David -- Duke, James Buchanan -- Duplex Printing Press Company v. Deering (254 U.S. 443) -- Durant, William Crapo -- Dust Bowl -- Eastman, George -- Eastman, Joseph Bartlett -- E-commerce -- Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 -- Economy Act of 1933 -- Edison, Thomas Alva -- Election of 1800 -- Election of 1828 -- Election of 1896 -- Election of 1912 -- Election of 1924 -- Election of 1928 -- Election of 1932 -- Election of 1964 -- Election of 1980 -- Election of 1992 -- Election of 2000 -- Election of 2008 -- Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 -- Elkins Act of 1903 -- Ely, Richard T. -- Emancipation Proclamation -- Embargo Act of 1807 -- Embargo Act of 1812 -- Emergency Banking Act of 1933 -- Emergency Credits Act of 1921 -- Emergency Farm Mortgage Act of 1933 -- Emergency Feed Grain Act of 1961 -- Emergency Quota Act of 1921 -- Emergency Railroad Transportation Act of 1933 -- Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932 -- Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts -- Emergency Tariff Act of 1921 -- Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 -- Employment Act of 1946 -- End Poverty in California -- Energy, Department of -- Energy Crisis -- Enron -- Environmental Movement -- Environmental Policy Act of 1969 -- Environmental Protection Agency -- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission -- "Equal Pay for Equal Work" -- Equal Rights Amendment. |
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Erdman Arbitration Act of 1898 -- Erie Canal -- Essex Decision -- European Union -- "Ever-Normal Granary" -- Export-Debenture Plan -- Export-Import Bank -- Exxon Mobil -- Facebook -- Fair Deal -- Fair Employment Practices Commission -- Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 -- Farm Act of 1981 -- Farm Bloc -- Farm Credit Act of 1933 -- Farm Credit Act of 1971 -- Farm Credit Administration -- Farm Labor Supply Act of 1943 -- Farm Security Administration -- Farmer-Labor Party -- Farmers' Alliances -- Farmers Home Administration -- Featherbedding -- Federal Aid Road Act of 1916 -- Federal Anti-Price Discrimination Act of 1936 -- Federal Aviation Administration -- Federal Budget -- Federal Communications Commission -- Federal Crop Insurance Act of 1938 -- Federal Defense Spending -- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation -- Federal Emergency Relief Administration -- Federal Farm Bankruptcy Act of 1934 -- Farm Board -- Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916 -- Federal Highway Act of 1921 -- Federal Highway Administration -- Federal Home Loan Bank Act of 1932 -- Federal Housing Administration -- Federal Intermediate Credit Bank System -- Federal Maritime Commission -- Federal National Mortgage Association -- Federal Open Market Committee -- Federal Power Commission -- Federal Radio Commission -- Federal Reserve System -- Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation -- Federal Surplus Relief Corporation -- Federal Trade Commission -- Federal Workmen's Compensation Act of 1916 -- Federalist Party -- Firestone, Harvey Samuel -- Fisher, Frederick John -- Fisher, Irving -- Fisk, James -- Fitzgerald, Albert -- Fitzsimmons, Frank Edward -- Fletcher v. Peck (6 Cranch 87, 1810) -- Florida Boom -- Food Administration -- Food and Agriculture Act of 1962 -- Food and Agriculture Act of 1965 -- Food and Drug Administration -- Food Control Act of 1917 -- Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 -- Food for Peace Act of 1965 -- Food Production Act of 1917 -- Food Stamp Act of 1964 -- Forbes, John Murray -- Forbes, Malcolm -- Ford, Gerald -- Ford, Henry -- Ford, Henry, II -- Ford Motor Company -- Fordney-McCumber Tariff of 1922 -- Foreign Miners Act of 1850 -- Foster, William Zebulon -- Fourteenth Amendment -- Fox, William -- Fraser, Douglas Andrew -- "Free Ships, Free Goods" -- Free Silver -- Free-Soil Party -- Free Trade -- Freedmen's Bureau -- "Freedom of the Seas" -- Frick, Henry Clay -- Friedman, Milton -- Frontier -- Fuel Efficiency -- Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 -- Fuller, Alfred Carl -- Fulton, Robert -- Funding the National Debt -- Gadsden Purchase -- Galbraith, John Kenneth -- Gallatin, Abraham Alfonse Albert -- Garvey, Marcus Mosiah -- Gary, Elbert Henry -- Gates, Bill -- Geneen, Harold Sydney -- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) -- General Electric Corporation -- General Motors Corporation -- General Survey Act of 1824 -- Gentrification -- George, Henry -- Gerber, Daniel Frank, Jr. -- Getty, Jean Paul -- G.I. Bill of Rights -- Giannini, Amadeo Peter -- Gibbons v. Ogden (9 Wheaton 1) -- Gilded Age -- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins -- Gimbel, Bernard -- Girdler, Tom Mercer -- Glass, Carter -- Glass-Steagall Act of 1932 -- Global Warming 269 Globalization -- Gold Reserve Act of 1934 -- Gold Rush -- Gold Standard Act of 1900 -- Goldman, Emma -- Goldwater, Barry Morris -- Gompers, Samuel -- Good Neighbor Policy -- Goodnight, Charles -- Goodyear, Charles -- Google -- Gordy, Berry, Jr. -- Gorman, Frank J. -- Gould, Jay -- Grace, Eugene Gifford -- Grace, William Russell -- Graduation Act of 1854 -- Granger Laws -- Grant, William Thomas -- Great Depression -- Great Northern Railway -- Great Recession -- Great Society -- Green, William -- Greenback Party -- Greenback-Labor Party -- Greenspan, Alan -- Green Technology -- Griffith, David Lewelyn Wark -- Group of Eight (G-8) -- Guggenheim, David -- Hall, Joyce Clyde -- Hamilton, Alexander -- Hammer, Armand -- Hammer v. Dagenhart (247 U.S. 251) -- Hansen, Alvin -- Hard Money -- Harriman, Edward Henry -- Harrington, Michael -- Harris Treaty of 1858 -- Harrison, George -- Hartford, George Huntington -- Hartford Convention -- Hatch Act of 1887 -- Hawaii -- Hawaiian Reciprocity Treaty of 1875 -- Hawley-Smoot Tariff -- Hay, John Milton -- Haymarket -- Haywood, William Dudley -- Hearst, William Randolph -- Heinz, Henry John -- Heller, Walter -- Hepburn Act of 1906 -- Heritage Foundation -- High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 -- Hill, George Washington -- Hill, James Jerome -- Hillman, Sidney -- Hillquit, Morris -- Hilton, Conrad Nicholson -- Hoffa, James Riddle -- Holding Company -- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. -- Home Owners' Loan Corporation -- Homestead Act -- Homestead Strike of 1892 -- Hoover, Herbert Clark -- Hoover, Herbert William -- Hoover Dam -- Hoover Moratorium -- Hoovervilles -- Hopkins, Harry L. -- Hopkins, Mark -- Horizontal Integration -- Housing Act of 1954 -- Hughes, Charles Evans -- Hughes, Howard Robard, Jr. -- Hull, Cordell -- Humphrey, William Ewart -- "Hundred Days" -- Hunt, Haroldson Lafayette -- Huntington, Collis Potter -- Hurricane Katrina -- Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) -- Iacocca, Lee -- Illinois and Michigan Canal -- Illinois Central Railroad -- Immigration -- Immigration Act of 1924 -- Imperialism -- Impressment -- In re Debs (158 U.S. 564) -- Income Tax -- Independent Treasury -- Indian Removal Act of 1830 -- Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 -- Industrial Workers of the World -- Information Revolution -- Ingersoll, Robert Stephen -- Injunctions -- Installment Buying -- Insull, Samuel -- Inter-American Development Bank -- Interlocking Directorates -- Internal Improvements -- International Bank for Reconstruction and Development -- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers -- International Brotherhood of Teamsters -- International Business Machines -- International Labor Organization -- International Ladies' Garment Workers Union -- International Longshoremen's Association -- International Monetary Fund -- International Telephone and Telegraph -- Internet -- Interstate and Defense Highway System Act of 1956 -- Interstate Commerce Commission -- Investment Advisers Act of 1940 -- Investment Company Act of 1940 -- Iraq War -- Jackson, Andrew -- Jay's Treaty of 1794 -- Jefferson, Thomas -- Jim Crow -- Job Corps -- Jobs, Steve -- Johnson, Hiram Warren -- Johnson, Lyndon Baines -- Joint Stock Company -- Jones, Jesse Holman -- Jones, Mary Harris -- Jones-Connally Farm Relief Act of 1934 -- Jones-Costigan Sugar Act of 1934 -- Kaiser, Henry John -- Kanagawa, Treaty of -- Keith, Minor Cooper -- Kelley, Florence -- Kelley, Oliver Hudson -- Kellogg, Will Keith -- Kennedy, John Fitzgerald -- Kennedy Round -- Keynes, John Maynard -- "King Cotton" -- Knights of Labor -- Knox, Philander Chase -- Knudsen, William -- Korean War -- Kraft, James Lewis -- Kresge, Sebastian Spering -- Kroc, Ray -- Krugman, Paul -- Kuhn, Maggie -- La Follette, Robert Marion -- La Follette, Robert Marion, Jr. -- Labor, Department of -- Labor's League for Political Education -- Laffer, Arthur -- Laissez-Faire -- Lamont, Thomas William -- Land, Emory Scott -- Land Act of 1796 -- Land Act of 1800 -- Land Act of 1820 -- Land Management, Bureau of -- Land Ordinance of 1785 -- Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959 -- Lane, Dennis -- Lathrop, Julia -- Lausanne Conference of 1932 -- Legal Tender Act of 1862 -- Legge, Alexander -- Lend-Lease -- Lever Food and Fuel Control Act of 1917 -- Lewis, John Llewellyn -- Lewis and Clark Expedition -- Liberalism, Classical -- Libertarianism -- Liberty Loan Act of 1917 -- Lincoln, Abraham -- Litton Industries -- Lobbying -- Lochner v. New York (198 U.S. 45) -- Lockout -- Lodge Corollary -- Loew, Marcus -- London Economic Conference of 1933 -- Louisiana Purchase -- Lowell, Francis Cabot -- Macon's Bills -- Macy, Rowland H. |
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Madison, James -- Mahan, Alfred Thayer -- Manhattan Project -- Manifest Destiny -- Mann-Elkins Act of 1910 -- Marcy-Elgin Treaty of 1854 -- Margin Buying -- Market Revolution -- Marriott, John Willard -- Marshall, John -- Marshall Plan -- Martin, Warren Homer -- Mass Production -- Mayer, Louis Burt -- Maysville Road -- Maytag, Frederick Lewis -- McCormick, Cyrus Hall -- McKinley, William -- McKinley Tariff Act of 1890 -- McNary-Haugen Plan -- M'Culloch v. Maryland -- Means, Gardiner Coit -- Meany, George -- Meat Inspection Act of 1906 -- Medicare -- Mellon, Andrew William -- Mercantilism -- Merchant Marine Act of 1920 -- Merchant Marine Act of 1936 -- Meriam Report -- Mesabi Range -- Metals Reserve Company -- Mexican Cession -- Mexican War -- Meyer, Eugene, Jr. -- Microsoft -- Military-Industrial Complex -- Miller-Tydings Act of 1937 -- Mills, Ogden Livingston -- Mines, Bureau of -- Minimum Wage -- Missouri Compromise -- Missouri Pacific Railroad -- Mitchell, Charles Edwin -- Mitchell, John -- Molly Maguires -- Monetary Act of 1939 -- Monroe Doctrine -- Monsanto -- Morgan, John Pierpont. |
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Morgan, John Pierpont, Jr. -- Morgenthau, Henry, Jr. -- Morgenthau Plan -- Morrill Act of 1862 -- Morrill Tariff Act of 1861 -- Morrow, Dwight Whitney -- Morse, Samuel Finley Breese -- "Most-Favored-Nation" -- Motor Carrier Act of 1935 -- Motor Carrier Act of 1980 -- Muckrakers -- Muller v. Oregon (208 U.S. 412) -- Multinational Corporation -- Municipal Bankruptcy Act of 1934 -- Murray, Philip -- Nader, Ralph -- NASDAQ -- National Aeronautic and Space Administration -- National Alliance of Businessmen -- National Association of Manufacturers -- National Banking Act of 1864 -- National Child Labor Committee -- National Civic Federation -- National Credit Corporation -- National Debt -- National Defense Education Act of 1958 -- National Economic and Social Planning Association -- National Economic Association -- National Environmental Policy Act of 1970 -- National Farmers Organization -- National Farmers' Union -- National Foreign Trade Council -- National Grange -- National Housing Act of 1934 -- National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 -- National Labor Relations Act of 1935 -- National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation (301 U.S. 1) -- National Labor Union -- National Organization for Women -- National Recovery Administration -- National Resources Planning Board -- National Road -- National Small Business Men's Association -- National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 -- National War Labor Board -- National Youth Administration -- Neoliberalism -- Neutrality -- Neutrality Acts -- New Consortium -- New Deal -- New Democrats -- New Economic Policy -- New Freedom -- New Nationalism -- New South -- New York Central Railroad -- New York Stock Exchange -- Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902 -- Nixon, Richard Milhous -- Nixonomics -- Noble, Edward John -- Non-Importation Act of 1806 -- Non-Intercourse Act of 1809 -- Non-Partisan League -- Nonprofit Organizations -- Norquist, Grover -- Norris, George William -- Norris-La Guardia Labor Relations Act of 1932 -- North American Free Trade Agreement -- Northern Pacific Railway -- Northern Securities Company -- Northwest Ordinance -- Nuclear Regulatory Commission -- Nye, Gerald Prentice -- Obama, Barack -- Ocala Platform -- Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 -- Office of Management and Budget -- Office of Price Administration -- Offshoring -- Ohio and Erie Canal -- Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers International Union -- "Okies" -- Online Education -- Open Door Policy -- Open Shop -- Oregon Trail -- Oregon Treaty of 1846 -- Organization of American States -- Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries -- Outsourcing -- Owen, Robert Dale -- Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 -- Paley, William Samuel -- Panama Canal Zone -- Panama Refining Company v. Ryan -- Panic of 1819 -- Panic of 1837 -- Panic of 1857 -- Panic of 1873 -- Panic of 1907 -- Parity -- Patman, Wright -- Patterson, John Henry -- Patterson, William Allen -- Payne-Aldrich Tariff of 1909 -- Peace Corps -- Pecora, Ferdinand -- Peek, George Nelson -- Pendleton Act of 1883 -- Penney, James Cash -- Pennsylvania Canal -- Pennsylvania Railroad -- Perkins, Frances -- Perkins, George W. -- Perot, Henry Ross -- Perry, Matthew Calbraith -- Persian Gulf War -- Pfizer -- Phelps, Anson Greene -- Phillips, Frank -- Piecework -- Pinchot, Gifford -- Pinckney's Treaty of 1795 -- Pink Collar -- Planned Obsolescence -- Platt Amendment -- Plumb Plan -- Polk, James Knox -- Pony Express -- Pools -- Populist Party -- Potofsky, Jacob Samuel -- Powderly, Terence Vincent -- Preemption Act of 1841 -- President's Organization on Unemployment Relief -- Professionalization -- Progressive Movement -- Prohibition -- Protective Legislation -- Public Debt Act of 1941 -- Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 -- Pueblo Land Act of 1924 -- Pujo Committee -- Pullman Strike -- Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 -- Putting-Out System -- Quitrent -- Radio -- Railroad Brotherhoods -- Railroad Land Grants -- Railroad Retirement Act of 1934 -- Railroad Retirement Act of 1937 -- Railroad Strike of 1877 -- Railroad Strike of 1922 -- Railway Labor Act of 1926 -- Railway Labor Act of 1934 -- Rand Corporation -- Randolph, Asa Philip -- Raskob, John Jacob -- "Reading Formula" -- Reagan, Ronald -- Reaganomics -- Rebate -- Recession of 1937-1938 -- Recession of 1982 -- Recession of 1991 -- Recession of 2002-2003 -- Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934 -- Reclamation, Bureau of -- Reclamation Project Act of 1939 -- Reconstruction -- Reconstruction Finance Corporation -- Reparations -- Report on Manufactures -- Report on the Public Credit -- Research and Development (R & D) -- Resettlement Administration -- Reuther, Walter Philip -- Revenue Act of 1861 509 Revenue Act of 1864 -- Revenue Act of 1921 -- Revenue Act of 1924 -- Revenue Act of 1932 -- Revenue Act of 1935 -- Revenue Act of 1940 -- Revenue Act of 1964 -- Revenue Act of 1971 -- Revenue-Sharing -- Reynolds, Richard Joshua -- "Right-to-Work" -- Roaring Twenties -- Robber Barons -- Rockefeller, John Davison -- Rockefeller, John Davison, Jr. -- Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor -- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano -- Roosevelt, Theodore -- Roosevelt Corollary -- Roosevelt-Litvinov Agreements of 1933 -- Rosenwald, Julius -- Rosie the Riveter -- Rostow, Walt Whitman -- Rubber Reserve Company -- Rural Electrification Administration -- Rural Free Delivery -- Russian American Company -- Rust Belt -- Ryan, John Augustine -- Sachs, Samuel -- Safety Valve -- St. Lawrence Seaway -- Sanders, Harland -- Santa Fe Trail -- Sarnoff, David -- Savings and Loan Crisis -- Scab -- Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States (295 U.S. 495) -- Schwab, Charles Michael -- Seaboard Air Line Railroad -- Sears, Roebuck and Company -- Seattle General Strike of 1919 -- Second Bank of the United States -- Securities Act of 1933 -- Securities and Exchange Commission -- Securities Exchange Act of 1934 -- Securities Investor Protection Corporation -- Service Industry -- Share Our Wealth Movement -- Sharecropper -- Shays's Rebellion -- Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921 -- Sherman, John -- Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 -- Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 -- Shipping Act of 1984 -- Silicon Valley -- Silver Act of 1963 -- Silver Democrats -- Silver Purchase Act of 1934 -- Silver Republican Party -- Sinclair, Upton Beall -- Single Tax Movement -- Sit-Down Strike -- Slaughterhouse Cases -- Slave Trade -- Slavery -- Sloan, Alfred Pritchard, Jr. |
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Small Business Administration -- Smartphones -- Smith, Alfred Emmanuel -- Smith-Lever Act of 1914 -- Smoot, Reed -- Social Darwinism -- Social Gospel 548 Social Media 548 Social Security Act of 1935 -- Social Security Administration 551 Socialism 551 Socialist Labor Party -- Socialist Party of America -- Soil Conservation Act of 1935 -- Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936 -- Southern Homestead Act of 1866 -- Southern Pacific Railroad -- Southern Tenant Farmers' Union -- Spanish-American War -- Special Committee on Farm Tenancy -- Specie Circular of 1836 -- Specie Resumption Act of 1875 -- Stagflation -- Staggers Rail Act of 1980 -- Stanford, Leland -- Steagall, Henry Bascom -- Steel Company Seizure of 1952 -- Steel Strike of 1919 -- Steinbeck, John -- Stephens, Uriah Smith -- Stock-Raising Homestead Act of 1916 -- Stone, Harlan Fiske -- Stone, Warren Stanford -- Subprime Mortgage Crisis -- Subsistence Homesteads -- Subtreasury Plan -- Suburbs -- Sunbelt -- Supply-Side Economics -- Sweatshop -- Swift, Gustavus Franklin -- Swope, Gerard -- Sylvis, William -- Taft, William Howard -- Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 -- Taney, Roger Brooke -- Tariff Commission Act of 1916 -- Tariff of 1789 -- Tariff of 1816 -- Tariff of 1824 -- Tariff of 1828 -- Tariff of 1842 -- Tax Payment Act of 1943 -- Tax Reform Act of 1986 -- Taylor, Frederick Winslow -- Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 -- Tea Party Movement -- Teapot Dome -- Technocracy -- Telecommuting -- Temporary Emergency Relief Administration -- Temporary National Economic Committee -- Tennessee Valley Authority -- Textile Workers Union of America -- Three-Fifths Compromise -- Timber Culture Act of 1873 -- Timber Cutting Act of 1878 -- Total Quality Management -- Townsend, Francis Everett -- Toxic Substances Control Act -- Trade Deficit -- Trade Expansion Act of 1962 -- Trade Relations Council of the United States -- Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917 -- Trans-Mississippi West -- Transportation, Department of -- Transportation Act of 1920 -- Transportation Act of 1940 -- Triangle Shirtwaist Fire -- Triangular Trade -- Trickle-Down Theory -- Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) -- Truman, Harry S. -- Truman Doctrine -- Trump, Donald John -- Trust -- Tugwell, Rexford Guy -- Turnpike -- Underwood Tariff of 1913 -- Unemployed Councils -- Unemployed Leagues -- Union Pacific Railroad -- United Automobile Workers -- United Farm Workers Union -- United Fruit Company -- United Mine Workers -- United Rubber Workers -- United States Chamber of Commerce -- United States Commercial Company -- United States Railroad Administration -- United States Steel Corporation -- United States v. Butler (297 U.S. 1) -- United States v. E.C. Knight Company (156 U.S. 1) -- United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Association (166 U.S. 290) -- United Steelworkers of America -- Van Dyke, John Wesley -- Van Swearingen Brothers -- Vanderbilt, Cornelius. |
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Vanderbilt, Cornelius, III -- Veblen, Thorstein Bunde -- Vertical Integration -- Vietnam War -- Wabash and Erie Canal -- Wage Stabilization Board -- Wagner, Robert Ferdinand -- Wagner-Peyser Act -- Wagner-Steagall Housing Act of 1937 -- Walgreen, Charles Rudolph -- Walker Tariff of 1846 -- Wall Street -- Wallace, Henry Agard -- Walmart -- Waltham System -- Wanamaker, John -- War Debts -- War Finance Corporation -- War Industries Board -- War Manpower Commission -- War of 1812 -- War Production Board -- Warburg, James Paul -- Warburg, Paul Moritz -- Ward, Aaron Montgomery -- Warner Brothers -- Warren, George Frederick -- Washington, Booker Taliferro -- Washington, George -- Watson, Thomas John -- Wealth Tax Act of 1935 -- Weaver, James Baird -- Webb-Pomerene Act of 1918 -- Webster, Daniel -- Weir, Ernest Tener -- Welfare Reform Act of 1996 -- Wells Fargo Bank -- West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (300 U.S. 379) -- Westinghouse Electric Corporation -- Wheat Belt -- Wheat Controversy of 1972 -- Wheeler, Burton Kendall -- Wheeler-Lea Act of 1938 -- Whip Inflation Now -- Whiskey Tax -- White-Collar -- Whitney, Eli -- Whitney, Richard -- Wickham, Carl Eric -- Wiggin, Albert Henry -- Wilbur, Ray Lyman -- "Wildcat Strike" -- Wilderness Road -- Wilson, Charles Erwin -- Wilson, Milburn Lincoln -- Wilson, Thomas Woodrow -- Wilson-Gorman Tariff of 1894 -- Wisconsin Idea -- Women's Trade Union League -- Wood, Robert Elkington -- Woodruff, Robert Winship -- Woodward, Ellen Sullivan -- Work Relief -- Workers' Compensation -- Workers' Education -- Workfare -- Works Progress Administration -- World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks -- World Trade Organization (WTO) -- World War I -- World War II -- Wrigley, William, Jr. -- Yahoo! -- Yellen, Janet Louise -- Yellow-Dog Contract -- Young, Owen D. -- Young Plan -- Zynga. |
| Summary |
A study of the U.S. economy is important to understanding U.S. politics, society, and culture. To make that study easier, this dictionary offers concise essays on many economics-related topics. Entries cover a broad array of pivotal information on historical events, legislation, economic terms, labor unions, inventions, interest groups, elections, court cases, economic policies and philosophies, economic institutions, and global processes. |
| Other author |
Mendoza, Abraham O., author.
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United States -- Economic conditions -- Dictionaries.
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Dictionaries |
| ISBN |
9781786845627 (electronic version) |
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1786845628 (electronic version) |
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9781610696982 (e-book) |
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1610696980 (e-book) |
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9781610696975 (hardback) |
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