https://padlet.com/arfirth2021/1htap8oufcwiwtyy Aiden Firth en-us 2021-03-02 13:06:43 UTC 2025-12-12 15:23:54 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4c8.png arfirth2021 https://padlet.com/arfirth2021/1htap8oufcwiwtyy/wish/1258084056 2021-03-02 13:08:59 UTC https://padlet.com/arfirth2021/1htap8oufcwiwtyy/wish/1258084056 arfirth2021 https://padlet.com/arfirth2021/1htap8oufcwiwtyy/wish/1258090714 Starting with the Navigation Acts and eventually leading to the Stamp and Townshend Acts, all regulating trade in the 13 Colonies.]]> 2021-03-02 13:10:39 UTC https://padlet.com/arfirth2021/1htap8oufcwiwtyy/wish/1258090714 arfirth2021 https://padlet.com/arfirth2021/1htap8oufcwiwtyy/wish/1258105243 2021-03-02 13:14:09 UTC https://padlet.com/arfirth2021/1htap8oufcwiwtyy/wish/1258105243 arfirth2021 https://padlet.com/arfirth2021/1htap8oufcwiwtyy/wish/1258108840 This was the first government created by the new United States and it gave so little power to the federal government that it could not effectively regulate the economy at all.]]> 2021-03-02 13:14:59 UTC https://padlet.com/arfirth2021/1htap8oufcwiwtyy/wish/1258108840 arfirth2021 https://padlet.com/arfirth2021/1htap8oufcwiwtyy/wish/1258149446 The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was a law that was passed by Congress under Benjamin Harrison which stopped monopolies of the free market by outlawing trusts.  This came at a time where trusts were a large problem and companies, like Rockefeller Oil, controlled almost all of the market.  This is still one of the biggest regulations of the economy that the government has passed.

“Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890).” Our Documents - Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890), www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=51. 

]]> 2021-03-02 13:23:52 UTC https://padlet.com/arfirth2021/1htap8oufcwiwtyy/wish/1258149446 arfirth2021 https://padlet.com/arfirth2021/1htap8oufcwiwtyy/wish/1261272161 This is regarded by most as the lowest point in the history of the American economy, where there was an unprecedented amount of unemployment and economies globally tanked.]]> 2021-03-03 00:17:37 UTC https://padlet.com/arfirth2021/1htap8oufcwiwtyy/wish/1261272161 arfirth2021 https://padlet.com/arfirth2021/1htap8oufcwiwtyy/wish/1261279910 This was a method of ending the Great Depression in the US, pioneered by FDR in the 1930's which used both government work programs to employ citizens and government subsidies to pull the economy out of the recession it was in.

History.com Editors. “New Deal.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 29 Oct. 2009, www.history.com/topics/great-depression/new-deal. 

]]> 2021-03-03 00:20:19 UTC https://padlet.com/arfirth2021/1htap8oufcwiwtyy/wish/1261279910 arfirth2021 https://padlet.com/arfirth2021/1htap8oufcwiwtyy/wish/1261297715 Trust Busting was a series of laws that were passed that limited and broke up trusts even more. A major proponent in this was then president Theodore Roosevelt.]]> 2021-03-03 00:26:02 UTC https://padlet.com/arfirth2021/1htap8oufcwiwtyy/wish/1261297715 arfirth2021 https://padlet.com/arfirth2021/1htap8oufcwiwtyy/wish/1261328797 According to the Pew Research Center, many people have a very partisan view on governmental regulation of business.  In the graphic above it shows the different parties views, with 66% of liberals thinking that regulation of business is necessary to protect public interest and only 31% of conservatives thinking the same way.

“Views on Government, Regulation and the Social Safety Net.” Pew Research Center - U.S. Politics & Policy, Pew Research Center, 28 Aug. 2020, www.pewresearch.org/politics/2017/10/05/2-government-regulation-and-the-social-safety-net/. 

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