We the people

U.S. Business Labor HIstory

By chesloza
  • Jamestown establishes trade with Native Americans

    Jamestown establishes trade with Native Americans

  • Fur Trade with the Dutch

  • Colonies Issue Paper Money

    Colonies Issue Paper Money

  • South Sea Bubble Burst

    Ecconomic crisis

  • Plantation Economy

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

  • American Revolution

    American Revolution

  • Establishment of the Bank of North America

    set up to help fund the american revolution by Robert Morris using a loan from the french

  • Creation of the First Bank of the U.S.

    the charter lasted until 1811
  • Invention of the Cotton Gin

    Invention of the Cotton Gin

    Eli Whitney applies for a pattent for the Cotton Gin

  • Establishment of the U.S. Patent Office

  • Louisiana Purchase

    Doubled the size of the United States
  • Period: to

    War of 1812

  • Creation of the Second Bank of the U.S.

    created as a result of the War of 1812. 20 year charter

  • Panic of 1819

  • Erie Canal

    Erie Canal

  • First state childlabor reform act passed

    passed in massachusetts

  • First state child labor law passed

  • Panic of 1837

    halted economic growth for three years

  • Railroad built connecting Atlantic to Pacific

  • Period: to

    The gilded age

    time of rapid economic development after the civil war

  • Morrill Tarriff

    Pretective tarriff during war time

  • The Civil War

  • Homestead Act

    Set up program for newly freed slaves and others to obtail land
  • Establishment of the Knights of Labor

    Establishment of the Knights of Labor

    First Union

  • Sherman Anti-trust Act

    broke up monopolies

  • Publication of Upton Sinclair's the Jungle

  • First Workman compensation law passed In NY

  • Standard Oil Dissolved

    Standard Oil Dissolved

    Due to the Sherman Anti trust act

  • Passage of the Sixteenth Amendment

    Income Tax

  • Assembly Line

  • World War One

  • Passage of the Eighteenth Amendment

  • Stock Market Crash

    Stock Market Crash

  • Period: to

    The New Deal

    Created many new programs and jobs after the great depression

  • Fair Labor Standards Act

    “put a ceiling over hours and a floor under wages”

  • Passage of the GI bill

    assisted with verterans attending college

  • Chartering of the United Nations

  • Passage of the Social Security Amendments

  • OPEC Oil Crisis

  • Energy Crisis

    Oil and Energy crisis

  • Tax Reform Act

    Reagan Tax cuts

  • Dot Com Boom

    internet boom

  • Family and medical leave act

    Set up laws surrounding maternity leave

  • North American Free Trade Agreement

  • Terrorist Attacks

    Terrorist Attacks

  • Screen Actors Guild Writers Strike

  • Financial Crisis

    housing buble burst

  • American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

    In response to the 2008 financial crisis