Forever Dates Unit 2 American Economy

Columbian Exchange Begins; Triangular trade; mercantilism

1492

First permanent English settlement at Jamestown

1607

House of Burgesses founded; first enslaved Africans sold in the colonies

1619

Bacon’s Rebellion; slavery over indentured servitude

1676

Whiskey Rebellion; First Bank of the United States

1791

Cotton Gin

1794

Henry Clay proposed the American System

1816

Passage of the Homestead Act, Morrill Land Grant- Acts, Pacific Railway act

1862

Reconstruction Begins; Sharecropping, peonage, convict labor

1865

Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

1869

Reconstruction ends; economy of the New South

1877

Panic of…

1893

Census reveals more urban than rural residents; roaring 20s

1920

Stock market crashes →Great Depression

1929

New Deal Begins

1932

Start of the Baby Boom

1946

Great Society Begins

1964

Stagflation

1974

Reagan Elected President/Reaganomics

1980

Public Use of the Internet

1992