Ebook: The 100 most important American financial crises: an encyclopedia of the lowest points in American economic history

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1676 -- Bacon's Rebellion -- 1703 -- Tobacco Depression -- 1719 -- Mississippi Bubble -- 1733 -- Molasses Act -- 1749 -- Colonial Hyperinflation and Currency Deflation -- 1750 -- Iron Act -- 1762 -- Colonial Recession -- 1764 / 1765 -- Sugar Act, Currency Act, and Stamp Act Boycotts -- 1772 -- Credit Crisis -- 1776 -- War Financing Crisis -- 1781 -- Currency Deflation and Inflation -- 1790 -- Debt Assumption, Debt Retirement, and Expanding the Economy -- 1792 -- Panic -- 1794 -- Whiskey Tax Rebellion -- 1796 / 1797 -- Panic -- 1800 -- Trade Interference by Barbary Coast Pirates -- 1807 -- Economic Embargo and Depression -- 1812 -- War of 1812 -- 1816 / 1819 -- Economic Warfare and Dumping by Great Britain -- 1819 -- Panic -- 1820s -- Cotton Recession -- 1825 -- British Panic and Its American Impact -- 1828 -- Tariff of Abominations -- 1833 -- Andrew Jackson Closes the Bank of the United States and Lowers Tariffs -- 1837 -- Panic and Six-Year Depression -- 1847 -- Panic -- 1848 -- Gold Rush Boom and Bust -- 1850 -- Whale Oil Shortage: The First Energy Crisis -- 1854 -- Panic -- 1854 -- Decline of American Canals -- 1857 -- Panic -- 1861 -- Civil War Economics, Shortages, and Inflation -- 1862 -- Union Blockade and Inflation -- 1869 -- Grant's Recession -- 1873 -- Panic and Global Depression -- 1877 -- Great National Railroad Strike -- 1880s -- New England Energy Crisis -- 1882 -- Bessemer Process and the Labor Crisis -- 1882 -- Recession -- 1884 -- Panic -- 1890 -- British Panic.;The United States has fairly recently experienced the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. But crippling financial crises are hardly unusual: economic emergencies have occurred throughout American history and can be seen as a cyclical and "normal" (if undesirable) aspect of an economic system. This encyclopedia supplies objective, accessible, and interesting entries on major U.S. financial crises from the Colonial era to today that have had tremendous domestic impact-and in many cases, global impact as well.