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Historical Encyclopedia of American Business

Table of Contents

Accounting industry




Advertising industry




Affirmative action programs




AFL-CIO




Agency for International Development, U.S.




Agribusiness




Agriculture




U.S. Department of Agriculture




Air traffic controllers’ strike




Air transportation industry




Aircraft industry




Airships




Alaska Pipeline




Alaska purchase




Alcoholic beverage industry




American Automobile Association




American Bimetallic League national convention




American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers




American Stock Exchange




Amtrak




Annapolis Convention




Antique and art markets




Antitrust legislation




Apple




Arab oil embargo of 1973




Arms industry




Army Corps of Engineers, U.S.




Articles of Confederation




Asian financial crisis of 1997




Asian trade with the United States




John Jacob Astor




Automation in factories




Automotive industry




Bank failures




First Bank of the United States




Second Bank of the United States




Banking




Bankruptcy law




Barron’s




Baseball strike of 1972




Beef industry




Alexander Graham Bell




Bell Labs




Black Friday




Black Hills gold rush




Black Monday




Bloomberg’s Business News Services




Bond industry




Book publishing




Boston Tea Party




Consumer Boycotts




Bracero program




Bretton Woods Agreement




Bridges




Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters




Warren Buffett




Bush tax cuts of 2001




Business crimes




Business cycles




Business schools




Cable News Network




California gold rush




Canadian trade with the United States




Canals




Andrew Carnegie




George Washington Carver




Catalog shopping




Cereal crops




César Chávez




Chemical industries




Child labor




Child product safety laws




Chinese trade with the United States




Christmas marketing




Chrysler bailout of 1979




Civil Rights Act of 1964




Civil Rights movement




U.S. Civil War




Clay’s American System




Clayton Antitrust Act




CNBC




Coal industry




Coal strike of 1902




Coca-Cola Company




Coin’s Financial School




Cola industry




Colonial economic systems




Colorado River water




U.S. Department of Commerce




Commercial zoning




Commodity markets




Computer industry




Confederate currency




U.S. Congress




U.S. Constitution




Construction industry




Contract law




“Coolie” labor




Copyright law




Cotton gin




Cotton industry




Counterfeiting




Coxey’s Army




Credit card buying




Crédit Mobilier of America scandal




Credit unions




“Cross of Gold” speech




Cumberland Road




Currency




Dairy industry




Dams and aqueducts




Daylight saving time




DC-3 aircraft




DDT banning




Eugene V. Debs




W. Edwards Deming




Depression of 1784




Depression of 1808-1809




Deregulation of financial institutions




Derivatives and hedge fund industry




Digital recording technology




Diners Club




Walt Disney




Disneyland




Dot-com bubble




Dow Jones Industrial Average




Drive-through businesses




Drug trafficking




Dust Bowl




eBay




The Economist




Thomas Alva Edison




Education




U.S. Department of Education




Electronics industry




E-mail




Embargo Acts




U.S. Department of Energy




Energy crisis of 1979




Enron bankruptcy




Environmental movement




Environmental Protection Agency




Equal Employment Opportunity Commission




Erie Canal




European trade with the United States




Exploration




Export-Import Bank of the United States




Farm Credit Administration




Farm labor




Farm protests




Farm subsidies




Fast-food restaurants




Federal Communications Commission




Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation




Federal Emergency Management Agency




Federal Reserve




Federal Trade Commission




FedEx




Fiber-optic industry




Films with business themes




Financial crisis of 2008




Fishing industry




Food and Drug Administration




Food for Peace




Food-processing industries




Food Stamp Plan




Forbes




Henry Ford




Ford Model T




Ford Motor Company




Forestry industry




Fort Knox




Fortune




401(k) retirement plans




Benjamin Franklin




French and Indian War




Fuller Brush Company




Funeral industry




Fur trapping and trading




Gadsden Purchase




Gambling industry




John Nance Garner




Marcus Garvey




“Gas wars”




Bill Gates




Genentech




General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade




General Electric




General Motors




Genetic engineering




J. Paul Getty




G.I. Bill




Gilded Age




Gold standard




Samuel Gompers




Google




Jay Gould




Government spending




Granger movement




Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company




Great Depression




Great Migration




Alan Greenspan




Greeting card industry




Alexander Hamilton




Hawaii annexation




Haymarket Riot




Health care industry




HealthSouth scandal




Highways




Jimmy Hoffa




Home Shopping Network




U.S. Department of Homeland Security




Homestead Act of 1862




Homestead strike




Horses




Hotel and motel industry




U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development




How-to-succeed books




Howard Hughes




Hurricane Katrina




Lee Iacocca




Identity theft




Immigration




Corporate income tax




Personal income tax




Incorporation laws




Indentured labor




Indian removal




Industrial research




American Industrial Revolution




Industrial Workers of the World




Inflation




Insider trading




Insurance industry




Interest rates




U.S. Department of the Interior




Internal migration




Internal Revenue Code




International Brotherhood of Teamsters




International Business Machines




International economics and trade




International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union




International Longshoremen’s Association




Internet




Inventions




Iraq wars




Irrigated farming




Japanese trade with the United States




Jewelry industry




The Jungle




Junior Achievement




Junk bonds




U.S. Department of Justice




Henry J. Kaiser




Klondike gold rush




Knights of Labor




Korean War




U.S. Department of Labor




Labor history




Labor strikes




Land laws




Latin American trade with the United States




Legal services




Lend-Lease Act




John L. Lewis




Lewis and Clark expedition




Literary works with business themes




State-run lotteries




Louisiana Purchase




McDonald’s restaurants




Magazine industry




Management theory




Marshall Plan




Meatpacking industry




Medicare and Medicaid




Merger and corporate reorganization industry




Metric system




Mexican trade with the United States




Mexican War




Military-industrial complex




Mineral resources




Minimum wage laws




U.S. Mint




Mississippi and Missouri Rivers




Federal monetary policy




Montgomery Ward




J. P. Morgan




Morris Plan banks




Mortgage industry




Motion-picture industry




Muckraking journalism




Multinational corporations




Music industry




Mutual fund industry




NASDAQ




National Broadcasting Company




National Labor Relations Board




National Labor Union




National Science Foundation




Native American trade




Navigation Acts




Neutrality Act of 1794




New Deal programs




New York Stock Exchange




Newspaper industry




Nixon’s China visit




Indra K. Nooyi




North American Free Trade Agreement




Northern Securities Company




Northwest Ordinances




Nuclear power industry




Occupational Safety and Health Act




Online marketing




Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries




Organized crime




Overseas outsourcing




Panama Canal




Panic of 1819




Panic of 1837




Panic of 1857




Panic of 1873




Panic of 1893




Panic of 1907




Papermaking industry




Parliamentary Charter of 1763




Patent law




William Penn




Pension and retirement plans




Petroleum industry




Pharmaceutical industry




Photographic equipment industry




Pike’s western explorations




Maritime piracy




Plantation agriculture




Pony Express




Ponzi schemes




Poor People’s Campaign of 1968




Pork industry




Postal savings banks




U.S. Postal Service




Poultry industry




U.S. Presidency




Price fixing




Printing industry




Private security industry




Privatization




Prohibition




Promotional holidays




Local public transportation




Public utilities




Pullman Strike




Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act




Radio broadcasting industry




Railroad strike of 1877




Railroads




A. Philip Randolph




Reader’s Digest




Commercial real estate industry




Residential real estate industry




Recession of 1937-1938




Rental industry




Restaurant industry




Retail trade industry




Revolutionary War




Rice industry




Robber barons




John D. Rockefeller




Royal Charters of North American colonies




Rubber industry




Sales taxes




Savings and loan associations




Sears, Roebuck and Company




U.S. Secret Service




Securities and Exchange Commission




Seneca Falls Convention




September 11 terrorist attacks




Service industries




Sewing machines




Sharecropping




Shays’s Rebellion




Sherman Antitrust Act




Shipping industry




Sit-down strike of 1936-1937




Slave era




Slave trading




Small Business Administration




Social Security system




Space race




Spanish-American War




Intercollegiate sports




Sports franchises




First stagecoach line




Stamp Act of 1765




Standard & Poor’s




Standard Oil Company




Leland Stanford




Steamboats




Steel industry




Steel mill seizure of 1952




Martha Stewart




Stock market crash of 1929




Stock markets




Sugar industry




Supersonic jetliners




Supply-side economics




Supreme Court and banking law




Supreme Court and commerce




Supreme Court and contract law




Supreme Court and labor law




Supreme Court and land law




Taft-Hartley Act




Taiwanese trade with the United States




Tariff of Abominations




Tariffs




Taxation




Tea Act of 1773




Teapot Dome scandal




Telecommunications industry




Television broadcasting industry




Television programming with business themes




Tennessee Valley Authority




Texas annexation




Three Mile Island accident




Thrift stores




Time zones




Tobacco industry




Tourism industry




Townshend Act




Trading stamps




Transatlantic cable




Transatlantic steamer service




Transcontinental railroad




U.S. Department of Transportation




U.S. Department of the Treasury




Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire




Trickle-down theory




Trucking industry




Donald Trump




Truth-in-advertising codes




Truth-in-lending laws




Tupperware




Turnpikes




Tyco International scandal




Underwood Tariff Act




United Farm Workers of America




United Food and Commercial Workers




United Mine Workers of America




United States Steel Corporation




USA Today




Cornelius Vanderbilt




Vending machines




Video rental industry




Vietnam War




Wages




Madam C. J. Walker




Wall Street




The Wall Street Journal




Wal-Mart




War of 1812




War surplus




Warehouse and discount stores




Wars




Booker T. Washington




George Washington




Water resources




Western Union




Whaling industry




Whiskey tax of 1791




Whiskey Trust




Wilderness Road




Women in business




Woodworking industry




World Trade Organization




World War I




World War II




WorldCom bankruptcy