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17th Century Mercantillism
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Joint Stock Company
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18th/19th Century Self-Sufficient Farms
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Adam Smith and Wealth of Nation
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Growth of Manufacturing/ Textile Mills
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Erie Canal and Canal Revolution
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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
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Roaring Twenties
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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
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Inflation and Nixonomics
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Arab Oil Embargo
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Reaganomics
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Economic Slump
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The Great Recession