1.

The United States measures its economy by how many goods and services are produced in a ___.

month

quarter

year

2.

What does GDP stand for?

General Delivered Products

Good Directly Produced

Gross Domestic Product

3.

Road building and purchasing military equipment are examples of purchasing by .

government

individuals

consumers.

1. In a year

2.  Gross Domestic Product

3.  government

Explanation:

1. The methods of macroeconomic measurement usually cover periods of a year (GDP, Power Purchasing Parity).

2.  GDP means Gross Domestic Product, all the good and services produced by an economy in one year.

3. Governments usually buy road building and military equipment; building infrastructure and purchases of military materiel for an army are government jobs, not the job of private companies.

b)

it created free trade throughout the colonial territories.