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!Major Events | !Major Events | ||
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|'''17th Century (1600s)''' | |'''17th Century (1600s)''' | ||
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* colonial population growth via immigration and high birth rate | * colonial population growth via immigration and high birth rate | ||
* expansion of religious tolerance | * expansion of religious tolerance | ||
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|'''18th Century (1700s)''' | |'''18th Century (1700s)''' | ||
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* Revolutionary period & war | * Revolutionary period & war | ||
* new Republic under the US Constitution & introduction of Bill of RIghts | * new Republic under the US Constitution & introduction of Bill of RIghts | ||
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|'''19th Century (1800s)''' | |'''19th Century (1800s)''' | ||
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* European and East Asian immigration | * European and East Asian immigration | ||
* Industrialization and railroads | * Industrialization and railroads | ||
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|'''20th Century (1900s)''' | |'''20th Century (1900s)''' | ||
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* WWII & subsequent Cold War w/ the USSR | * WWII & subsequent Cold War w/ the USSR | ||
* Collapse of USSR & American gobal dominance | * Collapse of USSR & American gobal dominance | ||
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|'''21st Century (2000s)''' | |'''21st Century (2000s)''' | ||
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* Wars on Terror / Patriot Act | * Wars on Terror / Patriot Act | ||
* Rise of global economy and China | * Rise of global economy and China | ||
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=== Major economic crises timeline === | |||
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|Antebellum | |||
Jacksonian Period | |||
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|Gilded Age | |||
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|Panic of 1907 | |||
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* in late 1906, the stock market reacted poorly to the 1906 Hepburn Act, which | |||
* Stock market crash (down 50%) during a recession due to a failed Trust company (investment firm) and a subsequent bank failure due to bad loans based upon a coal/iron company stock | |||
* JP Morgan Co. intervened and led other investors to back the banks with credit and cash | |||
* When the coal/iron company stock crashed, US Steel (owned in part by JP Morgan) took over the company, which covered the bad loans and market price loss | |||
** it was significant because the T. Roosevelt administration gave tacit approval (by not objecting to it) of the takeover, even though it extended the U.S. Steel monopoly | |||
** marks the distinction for T.R. between "good trusts" (US Steel) and "bad trusts" (Standard Oil) | |||
* the Panic of 1907 led to calls to reform that nation's money supply, leading to the 1913 establishment of the Federal Reserve | |||
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