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Freedom of Religion, Assembly, Press, Petition Speech.

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First Amendment

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Right against unreasonable search and seizure, Warrant

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Fourth Amendment

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Don’t have to house soldiers in your home

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Third Amendment

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Speedy trial and impartial jury in a criminal trial

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Sixth Amendment

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No cruel and unusual punishment, No excessive bail

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Eighth Amendment

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Right to bear arms and The NRA supports this amendment

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Second Amendment

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Rights not listed in the Constitution go to the people

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Ninth Amendment

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Right to a jury in civil cases

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Seventh Amendment

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Due Process, Double Jeopardy, Miranda rights, Eminent domain

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Fifth Amendment

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Rights belong to the state not listed in the Constitution

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Tenth Amendment

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precedent

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A rule or law established in a previous case that will be used on future cases

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What type of court is the Supreme Court? How many members?

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Appellate court; 9 justices

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Exclusionary Rule.

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You can’t used any evidence obtained without a warrant in a trial

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Establishment Clause.

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Prohibits the government (or any government departments, officials, and buildings) from establishing a religion)

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The First Amendment gives you the right to protest any time or place?

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False

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Schools can limit lewd speech

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Bethel v. Fraser

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Schools can edit school newspapers

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Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier

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Schools can search without a warrant

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NJ v T.L.O

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Evidence obtained without a warrant cannot be used in court, exclusionary rule

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Mapp v. Ohio

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Students do have some freedom of expression, so long as it does not disrupt the school day

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Tinker v. Des Moines

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Schools can prohibit pro-drug messages

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Morse v. Fredrick

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22
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Bans poll tax

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24th amendment

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Bans alcohol

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18th amendment

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24
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Gives women right to vote

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19th amendment

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Ended slavery

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13th amendment

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Person can’t be denied right to vote based on race

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15th Amendment

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The equal protection clause

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14th Amendment

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28
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End prohibition

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21st amendment

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29
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Kept balance between slave and free states

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Missouri compromise

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30
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Who won the civil war?

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Union

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The dred Scott, election of Lincoln and the issue of slavery were all causes for which war

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Civil War

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Types of segregation that said black and white people had tp be seperated

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Jim Crow Laws

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tax that had to be paid before you voted, a way of preventing African Americans from voting

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Poll Tax

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test given to people to see if they were smart enough to vote, a way of preventing African Americans from voting

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Literacy test

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stated that you could only vote if your grandfather was able to vote, a way of preventing African Americans from voting

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Grandfather Clause

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36
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whites who used intimidation methods against the blacks

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KKK

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37
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When former slaves would work a part of the land and not get paid money but in crops,

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Sharecroppers

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38
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segregation as a way of life, not by law

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De Facto Segregation

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.racially motivated murder of a person for an alleged offense

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Lynching

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The time period after the Civil War from 1865-1877

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Reconstruction Era

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Segregation in schools is unconstitutional

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Brown v. Board of Education

42
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Forced the integration of the busses

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

43
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Separate but equal was constitutional

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Plessy v. Ferguson

44
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Students who integrated the HS in Arkansas

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Little Rock 9

45
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African Americans are inferior and cannot be citizens

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Dred Scott Case

46
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Mom had an open casket to show how brutal it was in the South, start of the Civil Rights Movement

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Murder of Emmett Till

47
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What are three things the Fair Labor Standards Act provided?

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Minimum wage, Overtime pay, ending child labor

48
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What impact did Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle have?

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-Forced the government to create the FDA

49
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What is the FDA?

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Food and Drug Administration, regulates food and drug that come into and are exported out of states

50
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What is suffrage?

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The right to vote

51
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What was Alice Paul’s strategy for getting women the right to vote?

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Get an amendment added to the constitution

52
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What was Carrie Chapman Catt’s staratgey

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Gain the right state by state

53
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Why did Woodrow Wilson end up supporting women’s suffrage?

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As a war measure

54
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When was the 19th Amendment ratified? What did it say?

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August 18, 1919
The right to vote must not be abridged by sex

55
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Title IX

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Schools must____________ have equal funding for men and women’s sports as well as have equal opportunities to play sports

56
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Roe v. Wade

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Many states outlawed abortions. (In Texas abortions ____________ were only legal to save the life of the mother)
Roe wished to have an abortion
But it was not allowed to under Texas____________ law
-Abrotion was ruled legal in the first three months

Was overturned in 2021

57
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Group that works with the Latino population to gain equality

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La Raza/LULAC

58
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Fought to help the farm workers in California

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Ceaser Chavez

59
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lack of Jobs

lack of Running Water

60
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Created by Obama for a path to Citizenship and not get deported

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DACA/DAPA

61
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fought for economic equality for Latino Americans and women by helping form CSO

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Dolores Huerta

62
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Group that fights for Native American rights

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AIM

63
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The Crisis at the US/Mexico border is increasing and is a major issue within the Latino Community.

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True

64
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Stonewall Riots

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June 29, 1969
A series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations
Against a police raid___________ at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village.

SPARKED THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

65
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Today you cannot be fired in any state for being gay

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TRUE

66
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Don’t Ask Don’t Tell

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In 1993 President Clinton enables “Don’t Ask, Don’t_________ Tell” (DADT) policy.
Openly gay individuals could not serve in the military
Openly gay__________ service members “would create an unacceptable risk to the high standards of morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion that are the essence of military capability”

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Obergefell v. Hodges (ruling and amendment that relates to equal protection used in the case)

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In 2015, groups of same-sex couples________ sued their relevant state agencies in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and Tennessee
Challenge the constitutionality of state’s’ bans_________ on same-sex marriage
Supreme Court rules that state bans_______ on same-sex marriages are unconstitutional (5-4)
Violate Equal protection_________ Clause of 14th Amendment

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Citizenship

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Latino

69
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Equal Pay

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Women

70
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Immigration

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Latinos

71
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Transgender laws and “Don’t say gay”

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LGBTQ+

72
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Representation in the media

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-LGBTQ+, Natives, Latinos. And disabled people

73
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Higher minimum wage

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Workers

74
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Representation in the government, not just in tribal land

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75
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Reproductive rights

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Women

76
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Water on the reservations

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Native Americans

77
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Better health benefits

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Workers

78
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Adoption Rights

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LGBTQ+

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Accessibility

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People with disabilities

80
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Economics

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How nations make decisions about distributing limited resources to satisfy the unlimited wants and needs of its citizens.

81
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Factors of production

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-Land
-Capital
-labor
-entrepreneurship

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Goods

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Actual product or material that can be obtained in the economy (something that can be touched)
EX: sneakers, car pen

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Services

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Work performed by someone
Ex: electrician, auto mechanic, hair stylist, chef

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Needs

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things required for survival
EX: Food, water, clothing, shelter

85
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Wants

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not required for survival
Luxuries
EVERYTHING ELSE that is not a need is a WANT
Ex. Food is a need, Pizza is a want

86
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Opportunity Cost

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The value of what you give up
Making a choice costs you the opportunity to get that other thing
The value of the runner-up, your second choice (the next BEST alternative)
NOT money!
EX: By not picking pizza you give up the opportunity to have the cheese, more carbs, tomato sauce

87
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Trade-off

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The act of getting something BUT giving up something else

88
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Entrepreneurship

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-leaders who decide how to combine Land, Labor and Capital to make new or innovative goods and services
-take risks to start new companies and develop new ideas
-Risk-taker

89
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Land (list 2 examples)

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Coal, golf course, Fruit, vegetables, the sea

90
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Labor (list two examples)

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Factory worker, carpenter, waiter, server

91
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Capital

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Pencil, car, tools, machines, mixer, oven

92
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Entrepreneurship

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CEO, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Mr.Pierre of Pierres Baker, Scrub Daddy Founder

93
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Macroeconomics

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The study of the economy as a whole

94
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GDP

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the _Gross Domestic Product_____________________________________ (GDP)
The dollar amount of all _goods, services, and structures ___________________________________________ produced within a country’s national borders in one year.

95
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Why are second hand sales not included in the GDP

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Product cannot be produced multiple times, so it is only accounted for by its first purchase.

96
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Recession

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When the GDP goes down for ___6______ consecutive months or more

97
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Top expenditure of the federal budget

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The US Military

98
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Which level of government gets Excise Tax (Level and Define)?

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Federal

99
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Which level of government gets Sales Tax

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State Government

100
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Which level of government gets Property Tax

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State and Local Government

101
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Which level of government gets Income Tax

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Federal Government

102
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Which level of government gets Inheritence Tax

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Federal Government

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