Many people view history merely as a set of dates and facts to be memorized, but history is much more than that. History is an organic and ever-changing discipline, periodically discovering new evidence and revising old commonly held beliefs. It’s not enough to learn history itself; one must learn from history the true essence of the human experience.
Each season will focus on topics from different courses in history including seasons 1: HIST 111 Ancient World Civilizations, 2: HIST 112 Modern World Civilizations, 3 U.S. Hist to 1900, 4 U.S. Hist 1900 to the present, and 5 Civics/Economics.
Section 1: The Role of Government
Free enterprise is the freedom of individuals and businesses to operate and compete with a minimum of government interference or regulation. In order to encourage competition and prevent monopolies, governments take steps to regulate economies.
Section 2: Measuring the Economy
An economic system is the way a society organizes the production and consumption of goods and services. Our government plays a limited, but important, role in measuring and trying to balance the alternating periods of growth and decline called the business cycle.
Section 3: Government, the Economy, and You
People form governments to establish order, provide security, and accomplish common goals. A major focus of government programs is to help people in poverty.
15 Nov 2021
Chapter 22 Lesson Business and Labor
Section 1: Types of Businesses
Market economies rest upon the fundamental principle of individual freedom for consumers, producers, and workers. The three basic types of business organizations in the United States are sole proprietorship, partnership, and corporation.
Section 2: The American Labor Force
Market economies rest upon the fundamental principle of individual freedom for consumers, producers, and workers. Labor unions represent about 14 percent of U.S. workers and play an important role in the nation’s economy and political life. They negotiate wages and workplace agreements with management.
Section 3: Businesses in Our Economy
Market economies rest upon the fundamental principle of individual freedom for consumers, producers, and workers. Businesses play many different roles in our economy, including that of consumer, employer, and producer. Businesses also have responsibilities to their consumers, owners, employees, and communities.
20 Sept 2021
Chapter 21 Lesson_Demand and Supply
Two forces work together in markets to establish
prices for all the goods and services we buy. They are
demand—the desire, willingness, and ability to buy
a good or service, and supply—the quantities of a
good or service that producers are willing to sell at all
possible market prices.
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