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Define the following terms and explain their importance in the study of macroeconomics:
a.consumer expenditures
b.investment spending
c.national income
d.transfer payments
Dutch West India Company
A 17th-century trading company chartered by the Netherlands to conduct commerce and colonization in the Americas and West Africa, also involved in the Atlantic slave trade.
"City Upon A Hill"
A metaphor derived from a sermon by Puritan leader John Winthrop, emphasizing the idea that the colony of Massachusetts should serve as a model of righteousness and Christian virtue for the world.
Puritans
A group of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to "purify" the Church of England from its "Catholic" practices.
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