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History #1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Entrepreneur | Person who invests money in a product or business with goal of making a profit |
| Protective tariff | Tax on imported goods making the price high enough to protect domestic goods from foreign competition |
| Laissez faire | Lenient as in yhe absence of government control over private business |
| Patent | Official rights given by the govenment to an inventor for the exclusive right to develop use, and sell an invention for a set period of time |
| Bessemer process | Method developed in the mid-1800s for making steel more efficiently |
| Suspension bridge | Bridge that had a roadway suspended by cables |
| Time zone | Any of the 24 longitudinal areas of thw world within which the same time is used |
| Mass production |