Economics 315 - American Economi

Date	Topic	Date	Topic
August 30	Introduction to the course	October 24	The revolution in distribution and production
September 1	A new world: Europeans, Africans and Americans	October 26	The integration of mass production and mass distribution
September 5	Empires and colonies (graphs, PowerPoint slides)	November 1	Immigration and the Atlantic Economy
September 7	Economic growth in North America: From subsistence to exports (graphs)	November 7	The rise of big business
September 11	Population, labor force and wealth in British North America	November 13	Money, banking and finance from the Civil War to the founding of the Fed
September 13	The American Revolution: Causes and consequences	November 15	The U.S. and the international economy before World War I
September 15	Public lands and the Constitution (PowerPoint slides, Collegeville Township map)	November 21	The Roaring Twenties?
September 19	Population growth and early legal developments	November 28	The Great Crash
September 21	The need for internal improvements	November 30	What caused the Great Depression (spreadsheet here)
September 25	Cotton and slavery	December 4	Government policy and the Great Depression: Help or hindrance?
September 28	Early industrial development	December 6	Macroeconomic policy from World War II to the Vietnam War (spreadsheet here)
October 2	Canals and finance	December 8	Muddling through the 1970s and 1980s
October 4	The West: Grain and family farms	December 12	Current issues in historical perspective
October 10	Antebellum economic growth and regional specialization
October 12	The Civil War: Economic causes, economic consequences (spreadsheet)
October 18	The revolution in transportation and communication (notes on Chandler are here)
October 20	Northern and western agriculture from the Civil War to World War I