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SS Chapter 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| goods | products that people make, use, or share |
| entrepreneur | someone who takes risks to start a new business |
| refinery | a factory that turns raw oil into a more useful product |
| competition | the act of competing for customers |
| monopoly | when one company has complete control over the goods in a certain market |
| boom | a period of rapid economic growth |
| trolleys | streetcars that run on tracks |
| sanitation | includes the keeping up of sewage systems |
| settlement houses | groups that provided services to immigrants and others living in cities |
| innovation | a new idea, method, or device |
| patent | an official document that gives an inventor the only right to make, sell, or use his or her invention |
| laboratory | a building or room where experiments take place |