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Volume
#2: A Young Nation (1765 - 1877)
1. Which to be? Tory or
Patriot?
Choices, costs, benefits, consequences, incentives,
opportunity costs
2. The American Revolution: One Tax Too Many
Local, state,
and federal taxes
3. Why were the Colonies frustrated with England?
Taxes and
trade restrictions
4. Writing the Constitution Was Hard
Costs and benefits,
trade-offs
5. The Constitution: What Freedoms Did the Framers
Want?
Economic freedom, costs and benefits, trade-offs,
entrepreneurship
6. Lewis and Clark: Why Did They Go Exploring?
Costs and
benefits, scarcity, opportunity cost, natural, capital, and human
resources, incentives, trade
7. Inventors: Dreaming Up New Ideas
Inventors, entrepreneurs,
producers, consumers, risk, profit, productivity, increasing
productivity
8. How Eli Whitney Made Cotton King
Productivity, labor,
capital resources, profit, loss
9. The Manufacturing North
Productivity, entrepreneurs,
capital resources, profits
10. Supply and Demand Set the Farmer's Price
Income, profit,
buyers, sellers, demand, supply, law of demand, law of supply, market
price
11. The Changing Price of Cotton
Demand, supply, law of
demand, law of supply, market price, changes in and demand and supply
12. On the Plantation
Choices, costs, benefits, consequences,
incentives, economic freedom, voluntary exchange
13. Lincoln at Gettysburg
Opportunity cost, costs and
benefits
14. The Pioneers Headed West
Choice, incentives, opportunity
cost, costs and benefits
15. A Good Job for Government!
Taxes, role of government,
goods and services provided by government, scarcity, opportunity cost
16. From Farms to Cities: The Amazing Farmers
Mystery
Productivity, investment, human capital, real capital,
technology
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