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Finals key terms

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Term
Definition
13th Amendment   Slavery Abolished  
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14th   No State may deny citizens rights  
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15th   Black Men can vote  
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19   women given right to vote  
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24   poll tax outlawed  
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26   18 year olds given right to vote  
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16   income tax allowed  
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18   prohabition  
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21   prohibition reapealed  
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22   president limited to 2 terms  
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25   presidential succession defined  
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27   restrictions on Congressional pay raise  
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Factors of production   Land Labor and capitol  
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Testimonials   People talking about their real experiences  
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Land Definition   The non man made materials used to make a product  
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labor Definition   The skills, knowledge, time and energy of people involved in making a product.  
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Capitol   Man made items like tools and factories used to producea good or service  
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Wants   The desire or need for a product or service.  
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Production   The combination of land labor and capitol in order to create a product.  
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Distrabution   The act of making a product or service available to people.  
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Consumption   The act of using a good or product.  
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Benefits   The positive aspects associated with a choice.  
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Scarcity   The absence of something that results from the conflict between unlimited wants and limited resources.  
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Opportunity Cost   The most important benefit that you give up because you chose something else.  
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Traditional Economic System   Everyone works for the good of everyone else. Made up of family units. Primitive by some standards.  
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Command   You have little to say in economic decisions You will do as you are told and you will like it or else. The gov. or central authority controls the F.O.P  
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Market   People have a major say in economic decisions. Most are motivated by the opportunity to make money.  
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Mixed   An economy this is a mixture of three basic symptoms.  
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Weakness of bartering?   Inconvenient in today's economy.  
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$ and a medium of exchange   It's what you give to get something else. People accept it because they can used it for the same purpose.  
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$ as a standard of value   People who understand the comparative worth of an object or service when discussing it's price or $ it generates.  
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$ as a store of value   It can be recognized when you decide to keep it instead of spending it.  
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$ is generally acceptable.   Everyone is willing to take money in exchange for goods and services because they too will be able to use or save it.  
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$ is easily counted and measured   Makes it easy to establish prices, keep track of value, profits and losses  
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$ is durable   Money lasts for a long time and is not easily destroyed.  
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$ is convenient   It is easy to carry and use.  
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$ is cheap to produce   Today's paper money and coins are much less expensive to make in comparison to the past practice of mining for precious metals to make coins.  
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$ is easily controled   IN a growing economy there must be a continuous supply of money with just the right amount avalible.  
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Value of currency   it is officially recognized as currency by the U.S federal government.  
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Supply   The amount of goods and service producers are willing and able to offer at different prices.  
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Law of supply   As prices go down supply goes down. As prices rise supply goes up.  
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demand   The amount of a product or service that consumers that consumers are willing and able to to buy at different prices.  
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Law of demand   As prices go down demand goes up. As prices go up, demand goes down.  
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Market Prices   The price at witch buyers and sellers are willing to trade.  
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Persuasive   Seeks to into purchasing specific goods or services, often by appealing to their emotion and general sensibility.  
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Informative   Provides customer with hard data about the nature and the function of the product.  
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Negativity   Attacking the competition becomes central.  
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Bandwagon   The focus becomes peoples need to belong to a group.  
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Scare tactics   This attempts to motivate people through fear.  
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Traditional wisdom   Stressing that things where better in the past.  
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High brow   Only for rich people and the higher class.  
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Statistics   Legitament scientific proof of why the product is good.  
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Testimonial   Individuals speak about real life experiences.  
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A.I.D.A   Four goals of advertising attention, interest, desire, and action.  
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Slogans   Catchy words or phrases that stick in your head and make you think about a product.  
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Jingles   Music that sticks in your head and makes you think of their product.  
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Trademarks   A visual image that immediately registers with a product  
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Gross Domestic Product   The total final value products created within borders of a nation in a year.  
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Gross National Product   Refers to the total value of goods and services produced by a nationality, regardless of location.  
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Economic Growth   An increase in the production of goods and services which provides citizens with higher living standaerds  
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Inflation   General rise in the price of a product.  
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Deflation   The general decrease of the price of a good or service.  
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Recession   Two quarters of negative economic growth or 6 months of negative economic growth.  
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