Wealth Timeline U.S. History

  • Indentured Servents arrive in America

    Brought cheap labor
  • Tobacco Movement

    Given to English from Native Americans and by 1860, 30 million pounds were sold per year
  • Enrollment Act

  • 14th Amendment Passed

    Corporations wanted to use this amendment to guarentee equal protection so that states did not unequally treat corporations.
  • Citizens United vs Federal Election Commission

    Political spending is protected under the First Amendment, meaning corporations and unions could spend unlimited amounts of money on political activities, only if it was done independently of a party or candidate.