The Economic History of the U.S. Lecture 22.pdf

1. Lecture 22
The Economic History of the United States

2. Practice Quiz
1. What four events occured in
Jamestown in 1619?

3. 1619
90 women - 125 pounds of tobacco
House of Burgess - Magna Carta 1215
Dutch ship with Africans
Private Propery Lots

4. Why Study History?

5. Decision Making
Flip a Coin
Vote
Talk to a Wise Person
Principles

6. John Steele Gordon
© 2004

7. Part I: A Vast And Roaring Wilderness
Chapter 1: The Land, the People, and the Law
Chapter 2: In the Name of God and Pro
fi
t
Chapter 3: The Atlantic Empire
Part II: A Country That Could Make Itself As It Pleased Transition: The American Revolution
Chapter 4: The Hamiltonian Creation
Chapter 5: A Terrible Synergy
Chapter 6: Labor Improbus Omnia Vincit
Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian Destruction
Chapter 8: New Jersey Must Be Free!
Chapter 9: Chaining the Lightning of Heaven
Chapter 10: Whales, Wood, Ice, and Gold
Part III : The Emerging Colossus Transition:The Civil War
Chapter 11: Capitalism Red in Tooth and Claw
Chapter 12: Doing Business with Glass Pockets
Chapter 13: Was There Ever Such a Business!
Chapter 14: A Cross of Gold
Part IV: The American Century Begins Transition: The First World War
Chapter 15: Getting Prices Down to the Buying Power
Chapter 16: Fear Itself
Chapter 17: Converting Retreat into Advance
Part V: A New Economic Revolution Transition: The Second World War
Chapter 18: The Great Postwar Boom
Chapter 19: The Crisis of the New Deal Order
Chapter 20: A New Economy, a New World, a New War

8. 1607 2024
417 Years
Jamestown
1776
169 yrs
Colonial
Period
Declaration of
Independence
Civil
War
1861 1914 1945
World
War I
World
War II
85 yrs
Post-Colonial
Period
53 yrs
Emerging
79 yrs
Post
War

9. Venture
Tobacco
Taxes
Cotton
Steam
Canals
Railroads
Telegraph
Gold
Slavery
War
Oil
Steel
Machines
Light
Retail
Unions
Papers
Trusts
Food
Computing
Start-Ups
Finance
Shoes
Internet
Mobile
Autos
Radio
Bootlegging
Banking
Film
Flight
Suburbia
Television
Roads