World History, Grades 9-12
R62PRIMARYSOURCEHANDBOOK from I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr. SETTING THE STAGEOn August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, ...
PRIMARYSOURCEHANDBOOKR63 An Open Letter by Cesar Chavez SETTING THE STAGE In 1969, Cesar Chavez wrote a letter in which he denie ...
BOYCOTT A refusal to have economic dealings with a person, a business, an organization, or a country. The purpose of a boycott i ...
and the rich. For a comparison of capitalism and social- ism, read the Analyzing Key Concepts on page 737. COMMUNISM An economic ...
The corporation is a legal entity in itself and, there- fore, is separate from its owners. As a result, business losses and debt ...
Business-to-business e-commerce is growing at an even greater rate, reaching around $700 billion in Much of that business inclu ...
It produces certain necessary goods and services that private producers consider unprofitable, such as roadways. It protects th ...
INFLATION A sustained rise in the average level of prices. Since more money is required to make purchases when prices rise, infl ...
The original intent of minimum wage laws was to ensure that all workers earned enough to survive. However, some economists maint ...
Because the factors used to determine poverty vary so much from country to country, world poverty fig- ures are difficult to cal ...
Some countries, such as Sweden, are called democrat- ic socialist countries. In these nations there is less government ownership ...
A rapid fall in stock prices is called a crash. The worst stock market crash in the United States came in October 1929. To help ...
R74 ECONOMICSHANDBOOK SUPPLY-SIDE ECONOMICS Government policies designed to stimulate the produc- tion of goods and services, or ...
Nations that trade with one another often become dependent on one another’s products. Sometimes this brings nations closer toget ...
The Glossary is an alphabetical listing of many of the key terms from the chapters, along with their mean- ings. The definitions ...
GLOSSARY R77 Anabaptist[AN•uh•BAP•tihst] n. in the Reformation, a member of a Protestant group that believed in baptizing only t ...
R78 GLOSSARY capitalismn. an economic system based on private owner- ship and on the investment of money in business ventures in ...
GLOSSARY R79 conquistadors[kahng•KEE•stuh•DAWRZ] n. the Spanish soldiers, explorers, and fortune hunters who took part in the co ...
D E R80 GLOSSARY czar[zahr] n. a Russian emperor (from the Roman title Caesar). (p. 311) daimyo[DY•mee•OH] n. a Japanese feudal ...
F G GLOSSARY R81 “Final Solution”n. Hitler’s program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people. (p. 937) Five-Year Plan ...
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