When We Drive a Car (A Private Good),we Pollute the Air.Our

question 34

Multiple Choice

When we drive a car (a private good) ,we pollute the air.Our benefit-driving the car-causes someone else to experience a cost-breathing polluted air and the possibility of related illness or discomfort.Polluted air is an example of a/an ____________________.

• A) public good
• B) contaminent
• C) club good
• D) externality
• E) common good

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Definitions:

Old Northwest

A historical term referring to the territory in the north-central United States that was covered by the 1787 Northwest Ordinance, including what is now Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota.

Indian Removal Act

A law passed in 1830 that authorized the U.S. government to forcibly relocate Native American tribes from their ancestral homelands in the southeastern United States to designated territory west of the Mississippi River.

1830

A year marked by significant global events, including revolutions across Europe and the passage of the Indian Removal Act in the United States.

Frederick Jackson Turner

An American historian known for his "Frontier Thesis," which argued that the American democracy was largely formed by the American frontier.