APUSH Theme 6

  • Period: to

    Boom and Bust: Economic Developement

  • Mercantilism

    is the economic doctrine that government control of foreign trade is of paramount importance for ensuring the military security of the country
  • Joint Stock Company

  • Self Sufficient Farms

  • Adam Smith and Wealth of Nations

    Adam Smith was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer of political economy.
  • Start of growth of Manufaturing mills

  • Erie canal

  • End of manufacturing growth

  • boom and bust cycles

    ruthless competition, monopolies, exploitation of workers and the begining of labor organization, government pro-business, inequality of income, farmers suffer
  • Century Reforms

    Interstate Commerce Act, Sherman Antitrust Act, and Federal Reserve System
  • Roaring Twenties

  • STock Market Crash and Great Depression

  • Mobilization for WWII

  • Begining of Post-War Economic Boom

  • End of Post-War Economic Boom

  • Begining of Great Society/War on Poverty

  • End of Great Society/War on Poverty

  • Inflation and Nixonomics

    Nixonomics is a word that refers to the economic performane of President Richard Nixon
  • Arab Oil Embargo

    Began when members of Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries or the OAPEC proclaimed an oil embargo
  • Reaganomics

    Growth of national debt, trade imbalance and increase global competition
  • Begining of Economic Slump

  • End of Economis Slump

  • Gegining of Great Recession

  • End of Great Recession