late 19th century 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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late 19th/early 20 Late 19th /Early 20th century reforms such as Interstate Commerce Act, Sherman Antitrust Act and Federal Reserve System
Roaring Twenties
Crash and the great Depression of the 1930's and Mobilization for WW
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Post-War Economic Boom
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Great Society/War on Poverty
Inflation and Nixonomics
Arab Oil Embargo
Reaganomics
Growth of national debt, trade imbalance & increase global competition