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Using the term INFLATION, explain what happened when Congress printed too much money paper to finance the Revolutionary War.

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When a material is overproduced, it causes its value to either go way down, or the value stays the same, but the prices for everything skyrocket. This is known as inflation, and was seen all over the world during the Industrial Revolution.

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