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!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)'''
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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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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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