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Triumph of Industry
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Entrepreneur | People that invest money in a product or enterprise to make a profit. |
| Protective Tariff | Taxes that would make imported goods cost more than those made locally. |
| Laissez-Faire | Allowed businesses to operate under minimal government regulation. |
| Patent | Grant by the federal government giving an inventor 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 Bridges | Bridge that has a roadway suspended by cables. |
| Time Zone | any of the 24 longitudinal areas of the world within 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 controls stocks in order to monopolize the market. |
| horizontal integration | system on consolidating many firms in the same business. |
| trust | group of separate companies that are placed under the control of a single managing board in order to form a monopoly. |
| vertical integration | system of consolidating firms that involved in all steps of a products manufacture. |
| social darwinism | the belief held by some in the late nineteenth century that certain nations and faces 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 than owned by individuals. |