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Industrail chapter1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Entrepreneur | People who invest money in a product or enterprise in order to make profit. |
| Protective tariff | Taxes that would make imported goods cost more than those made locally. |
| Laissez faire | Which allowed businesses to operate under minimal government regulation. |
| Patent | Grant by the federal government giving an iventor exclusive right to develop, use and sell an inventiom for a set period of time. |
| Bessemer process | Method developed in the middle 1800s for making steel more efficiently. |
| Suspension bridge | Bridge that has a road way suspended by steel cables. |
| Time zone | Any of tge 24 longitudinal areas of the world within which the same time is used. |
| Mass production | Production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly lines. |
| Corporation | Company recognized as a legal unit that has rights and liabilities separate from each of its members. |
| Monopoly | Exclusive control by one company over an entire industry. |
| Cartel | Association of producers of a good or service that prices and controlls stocks in order to monopolize that market. |
| Horizontal integration | System of consoilidating mamy firms in the same business. |
| Trust | Group of separate compains that are places under the control of a single managing board in order to form a monopoly. |
| Vertical integration | System of consoilidating firms inboled in all steps of a product's manufacture. |
| Social Darwinism | The belief held by some in ths late nineteenth century that certain nations and races were superior to others and therefore destined to rule over them. |
| Sweatshop | Small factory where employees have to work long hours under poor conditions for little pay. |
| Company town | Community whose residents rely upon one company for jobs, housing, and shopping. |
| Collective bargaining | Process in which employers negotiate with labor unions about hours, wages, and other working conditions. |
| Socialism | System or theory under which the means of production are publicly controlled and regulated rather thab owned by individuals. |