ABSTRACT

First Published in 2005. This volume offers a summary of all phases of economic growth in the USA. It is based upon the contents of the standard college textbooks in American economic history. It presents in succinct form and in the most common organization the essential facts about the economic development of the American people.

chapter 3|9 pages

The Colonization of North America

chapter 4|10 pages

Production in Colonial America

chapter 5|8 pages

Colonial Commerce

chapter 8|6 pages

Agriculture Before 1860

chapter 9|6 pages

Population and Labor Before the Civil War

chapter 11|9 pages

Westward Expansion Before the Civil War

chapter 12|7 pages

Beginnings of American Industrialism

chapter 14|8 pages

Money and Banking, 1789–1860

chapter 16|10 pages

Economic Aspects of the Civil War

chapter 17|6 pages

Passing of the Frontier

chapter 18|8 pages

Changing Agriculture, 1860–1914

chapter 20|10 pages

The Industrial Revolution

chapter 22|6 pages

The Labor Movement, 1860–1914

chapter 23|7 pages

Domestic and Foreign Commerce

chapter 24|7 pages

Financial History, 1865–1914

chapter 26|8 pages

Economic Imperialism

chapter 27|6 pages

World War I and the American Economy

chapter 28|6 pages

The Prosperous Twenties

chapter 29|5 pages

The Great Depression

chapter 30|13 pages

The New Deal

chapter 31|6 pages

America And World Economics