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Economic, labor and business history
- Agriculture, history, U.S.: Add brief definition or description
Antitrust: a policy to limit or prevent the creation of monopoly power and to preserve competition by regulating business conduct. [e]- Coal Mining: History: Add brief definition or description
- Fordism: A term in economic history for the efficiencies and economic impact of mass production, following the model Henry Ford developed in the 1910s and 1920s. [e]
Industrial Revolution: A period of major economic transformation in Britain from the 1750s to the 1830s, characterized by the growth of a new system comprising factories, railroads, coal mining and business enterprises using new technologies. [e]- Labor Unions, U.S., History: Add brief definition or description
- Railway History: Add brief definition or description
- Steel industry, history: The story of development of one of the core technologies of the Industrial Revolution. [e]
Textile industry, history: The story of the movement from handcraft production of cloth in every country to the industrial revolution in Britain, which featured the organization of cotton and wool yarn and cloth factories, and the subsequent spread of the industry to every country in the world. [e]
Political history
- Republicanism, U.S.: The guiding political value system of the United States. [e]
- First Party System: U.S. political party system (1792-early 1820s) pitting Alexander Hamilton's Federalist Party against the Democratic-Republican Party of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. [e]
- Second Party System: Term used by historians and political scientists referring to the United States' political system from about 1828 to 1854. [e]
- Third Party System: The political universe in American politics from about 1854 to the mid 1890s; the main concerns were nationalism. [e]
- Fourth Party System: Period in American political history from about 1896 to 1932, the Progressive Era. [e]
- Fifth Party System: In U.S. political history, the period from 1932 to the present, also called New Deal Era during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt [e]
- Federalist Party: An American political party during the First Party System, in the period 1791 to 1816, with remnants lasting into the 1820s. [e]
- Democratic-Republican Party: A United States political party during the First Party System, 1792-1820s, founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. [e]
- Whig Party: Party of the Second Party System, 1830 to mid-1850s, formed by Henry Clay to battle President Andrew Jackson's policies. [e]
- Democratic Party (United States), history: Add brief definition or description
- Republican Party (United States), history: Add brief definition or description
- Democratic Party (United States): One of the two major political parties in the United States; usually described as center-left. [e]
- Republican Party (United States): One of two major contemporary political parties in the United States; center-right; the elephant is its symbol. [e]
Religious history
U.S. Religion, History: Add brief definition or description- First Great Awakening: The First Great Awakening was a religious revitalization movement that swept the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s; there was a de-emphasis on ritual and ceremony and religion became intensely personal. [e]
- Second Great Awakening: (1800–1830s): the second great religious revival in American history and consisted of renewed personal salvation experienced in revival meetings combined with dramatically increased interest in philanthropic projects. [e]
- Third Great Awakening: The Third Great Awakening was a period of increased pietism and social activism in the last half of the 19th century; associated with the Social Gospel, Settlement House, and Charity Organization movements. [e]
- Fourth Great Awakening: A religious awakening that some scholars (notably economic historian Robert Fogel) argue took place in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. [e]
Social Gospel: Protestant intellectual movement that applied Christian principles to social problems. [e]- Quakers: Protestant denomination founded among English Puritans in the 17th century by George Fox and characterized by pacifism and the belief that Christ works directly in the soul of the believer; known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. [e]
Social history
- U.S. Demographic History: Historic trends in population growth, geographical distribution by states and urban-rural, internal migration, and components of change (births, deaths, immigration), as well as race and ethnicity, and population policy as they relate to the United States. [e]
- History of education in the United States: The origin, development, nature, and functions of learning and learning institutions in the United States, including during colonial times. [e]
- Social History, U.S.: Add brief definition or description
- Social Welfare History: Add brief definition or description
- Latino history: Add brief definition or description