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Defining Documents in American History: The American Economy

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Editor’s Introduction




Contributors




Commerce & Controversy in Earlier Times



“Advice to a Young Tradesman”


Adam Smith, from The Theory of Moral Sentiments


Letter from Robert Morris to Alexander Martin


Federalist No. 35 (Concerning the General Power of Taxation)


Patent Act of 1790


Thomas Jefferson on the Constitutionality of a National Bank


Alexander Hamilton on the Constitutionality of a National Bank


The Whiskey Tax of 1791 and George Washington’s Proclamation Regarding the Whiskey Rebellion


McCulloch v. Maryland


Henry Clay’s Speech on American Industry


Gibbons v. Ogden


Andrew Jackson’s Bank Veto Message


Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge


The Discovery of Gold in California


“Cotton Is King”


Treaty between the United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade


“The Money Power”


Booms & Busts In A Growing Economy



Documents Relating to Black Friday, 1869


Observations Regarding the Transcontinental Railroad


Cornelius Vanderbilt Cartoon, Map, and Illustration


Bell Telephone Patent


From Progress and Poverty


Sharecropping Contract


Dawes Severalty Act


Andrew Carnegie: “The Gospel of Wealth”


Eugene Debs: “What Can We Do for Working People?”


Sherman Antitrust Act


"Wall Street Owns the Country"


Populist Party Platform


President Grover Cleveland on Repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act


“Political Causes of the Business Depression”


“The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over”


“Cross of Gold” Speech


From The Theory of the Leisure Class


Theodore Roosevelt on Corporate Trusts


Eugene V. Debs: “How I Became a Socialist”


Robert La Follette on Amending the National Banking Laws


John D. Rockefeller on Standard Oil


Remarks on Politics and Business


Federal Reserve Act


Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution


Clayton Act


A Survey of American War Readiness


From My Life and Work, by Henry Ford


Crash, Burn and Recovery in the Great Depression



President Hoover Responds to the Stock Market Crash


President Roosevelt: Fireside Chat on “The Forgotten Man”


FDR on Government’s Role in the Economy


President Roosevelt: Fireside Chat Outlining the New Deal


John Maynard Keynes: An Open Letter to President Roosevelt


“Share Our Wealth” Address


Letter-Report Concerning the Tennessee Valley


FDR on Social Security


Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States


President Roosevelt: Fireside Chat on the Current Recession


Mid-Century Modern



Lend-Lease Act


From Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy


Letter to Robert Oppenheimer regarding a “Special Laboratory” in New Mexico


From The Fountainhead


From The Road to Serfdom


Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer


What’s Good for General Motors…


Eisenhower Message to Congress Regarding a National Highway Program


Eisenhower on Science in National Security


National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958


Patent Application for “Miniaturized Electronic Circuits”


JFK: “We Choose to Go to the Moon”


Proposal for a Nationwide War on the Sources of Poverty


IBM System 360 Announcement


Business and Economics in Recent Decades



“The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits”


The “Powell Memo”: Attack on the Free Enterprise System


Gerald R. Ford’s State of the Union Address, 1975


Bill Gates’ Letter to Hobbyists


Jimmy Carter’s Second State of the Union Address


The Laffer Curve


Ronald Reagan on the Strategic Defense Initiative


“Greed Is Good”


Lost American Jobs Tied to Unfair French Competition


North American Free Trade Agreement


Netscape Network Navigator Web Browser Launch


Interview with Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker


Sarbanes-Oxley Act


Paula Dobriansky: “On Working Together to Build Prosperity”


Apple Announces the iPhone


Lehman Brothers—Announcement of Bankruptcy


Foreclosure in the Nation’s Capital: How Unfair and Reckless Lending Undermines Homeownership


Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act—A Synopsis


From Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero


Congressional Leaders on a Second COVID-19 Relief Package


New Jersey Adopts “Millionaire’s Tax”


Appendixes



Chronological List


Web Resources


Bibliography