The American economy: a historical encyclopedia

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Agricultural policy

Antitrust legislation

Banking: development and regulation

Big business and government relationships

Communications

Currency

Economic Theories

Education

Energy Policy

Federal Reserve Bank

Foreign policy

Government domestic economic policies

Immigration policy

Insurance

Intellectual property

Judiciary

Labor

Land policies

Law

Monetary policy

Money laundering

Science and technology

Slavery

Stock market

Taxation

Trade policy

Transportation policy

Urbanization

War

Welfare state.

[Primary source documents] Ordinance of the Northwest Territory (1787)

Report on the subject of manufactures (1791)

Treaty between United States of America and the French Republic with conventions (Louisiana Purchase, 1803)

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)

Gadsden Purchase Treaty (1853)

Homestead Act (1862)

Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

Timber Culture Act (1873)

Timber and Stone Culture Act (1878)

Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)

Panama Canal Treaty of 1903

Federal Reserve Act (1913)

Federal Trade Commission (1915)

Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914)

Franklin D. Roosevelt on Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1932)

Herbert Hoover's response to Franklin D. Roosevelt on Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1932)

Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society Speech (1964)

Panama Canal Treaty of 1977

Ronald Reagan's remarks and a question and answer session with reporters on air traffic controllers' strike (1981).