The Business Plot

Examples of The Business Plot in the following topics:

• Challenges to the New Deal

  • The New Deal faced growing opposition from conservatives in both political parties and attracted criticism among business leaders.
  • Business leaders also joined the ranks of New Deal critics as the legislation continued to expand workers' rights as well as regulate production and trade practices.
  • The League gathered Republicans, Democrats, and business leaders who opposed the New Deal's premise that the government not only could but should intervene in the economy.  
  • The Business Plot (known as the White House Coup) was a 1933 political conspiracy against Roosevelt.
  • Contemporary media dismissed the plot, with a New York Times editorial characterizing it as a "gigantic hoax".

• The Transformed National Economy

  • Taylor pioneered the field of scientific management in the late 19th century, carefully plotting the functions of various workers and then devising new, more efficient ways for them to do their jobs.
  • Some tycoons were honest according to business standards of their day.
  • For better or worse, business interests acquired significant influence over government.
  • They enjoyed the risk and excitement of business enterprise, as well as the higher living standards and potential rewards of power and acclaim that business success brought.
  • A total of 18,000 businesses failed between 1873 and 1875, unemployment reached 14% by 1876, during a time which became known as the Long Depression.

• The Healthcare Plan of 1993

  • The Clinton health care plan was a 1993 healthcare reform package proposed by the administration of President Bill Clinton and closely associated with the chair of the task force devising the plan, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
  • Many were unhappy with the way the system worked in the United States, where the cost of health insurance seemed increasingly unaffordable for the middle class.
  • The outlook for the plan looked good in 1993; it had the support of a number of institutions like the American Medical Association and the Health Insurance Association of America.
  • Those further to the right argued that healthcare reform was part of a larger and nefarious plot to control the public.
  • Mitchell introduced a compromise proposal that would have delayed requirements of employers until 2002 and exempted small businesses.

• Kennedy's Assassination

  • President Kennedy's motorcade route through Dallas on November 22 was planned to give him maximal exposure to Dallas crowds before his arrival at a luncheon with civic and business leaders in the city.
  • The planned route was widely reported in Dallas newspapers several days before the event for the benefit of people who wished to view the motorcade.
  • The news shocked the nation.
  • On the Sunday after the assassination, his coffin was carried on a horse-drawn caisson to the U.S.
  • These conclusions were initially supported by the American public; however, polls conducted from 1966 to 2004 found that as many as 80 percent of Americans have suspected that there was a plot or cover-up.

• Early New England Society

  • High-level politicians gave out plots of land to male settlers, or proprietors, who then divided the land among themselves.
  • By the end of the 17th century, New England colonists had tapped into a sprawling Atlantic trade network that connected them to the English homeland as well as the West African slave coast, the Caribbean's plantation islands, and the Iberian Peninsula.
  • At the same time, the rural way of life began to face a crisis as the region's population nearly doubled each generation.
  • Most importantly, colonial legislatures set up a legal system that proved conducive to business enterprise by resolving disputes, enforcing contracts, and protecting property rights.
  • The region bordered New France, and in the numerous wars going on at the time, the British poured money into purchasing supplies, building roads, and paying colonial soldiers.

• The Plantation Economy and the Planter Class

  • The production of tobacco spread down the James, York, Rappahannock, and the Potomac rivers .
  • One plot was lying fallow, one plot was growing cane, and the final plot was being harvested.
  • From January to June, they harvested the cane by chopping the plants off close to the ground, stripping the leaves, then cutting them into shorter strips to be bundled off to be sent to the mill.
  • The juice from the crushing of the cane was then boiled or clarified until it crystallized into sugar.
  • The sugar was then shipped back to Europe, and for the slave laborer the routine started all over again.

• Literary Naturalism

  • The term naturalism itself may have been used in this sense for the first time by Émile Zola.
  • He argued that his innovation in fiction-writing was the creation of characters and plots based on this method.
  • A strong characteristic of literary naturalism is the author's detachment from the story and the attempt to maintain a tone that will be experienced as 'objective' by the reader.
  • Additionally, detachment is sometimes achieved by creating nameless characters to direct the focus to the plot and what happens to the character, as opposed to the characters themselves.
  • Another characteristic of naturalism is determinism, the opposite of the notion of free will.

• Red Scare

  • This concern was further inflamed following an anarchist bomb plot in 1919 to the point at which revolution and Bolshevism became the general explanation for all challenges to the social order used to excuse even such simple expressions of free speech as the display of certain flags and banners.
  • The army leadership believed it did not have the means to suppress the revolution and subsequently forced the abdication of Nicholas II, the last Russian emperor.
  • Thus, the press in 1919 misrepresented legitimate labor strikes as "crimes against society", "conspiracies against the government", and "Plots to establish Communism".
  • In the wake of the Seattle General Strike, the U.S.
  • In April 1919, authorities discovered a plot to mail 36 bombs to prominent members of the U.S. political and economic establishment, including J.

• The Demographics of the Middle Colonies

  • Families generally held and worked plots of between 40 and 160 acres.
  • They were erroneously labeled the Pennsylvania Dutch and comprised one-third of the population by the time of the American Revolution.
  • When the colony fell to the British, the Company freed all of its slaves, establishing early on a nucleus of free Africans in the Northeast.
  • The Pennsylvania Gradual Abolition Act of 1780 was the first attempt to abolish slavery in the colonies and what would become the United States.
  • Estimated population in the Colonies as of the year 1700.

• Colonial Cities

  • High-level politicians gave out plots of land to male settlers, or proprietors, who then divided the land among themselves.
  • The towns did not have courts—that was a function of a larger unit, the county, whose officials were appointed by the state government.
  • They were known as "the elect" or "Saints" and made up less than 40% of the population of New England.
  • By 1750, the population of Philadelphia had reached 25,000, New York 15,000 , and the port of Baltimore 7,000.
  • Baltimore grew rapidly in the 18th Century, ultimately becoming the largest city in the American South.