- Explain continuities and changes in the role of the government in the U.S. economy
- Took notes on 6.12, highlighting the core principles of laissez-faire economics, its ineffectiveness during the Panic of 1873, the desire of American policymakers in seeking foreign markets for domestic goods, how laissez-faire propontents justified the lack of government involvement in the economy of the United States, and the influence of the nation's economic ambitions on American foreign policy