Chapter 4 Vocab
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| 1.Entrepreneurs | People who invest money in a product or enterprise to make a profit.
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| 2.Protecticve Tariffs | Taxes that would make imported goods cost more than those made locally.
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| 3.Laissez-Faire | Allowed businesses to operate under minimal goverment regulation.
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| 4.Patent | A grant by the federal goverment givivng an inventor the exclusive right to develop,use,and sell and invention for a set period of time.
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| 5.Bessemer Process | Method developed in the mid 1800s for making steel more efficiently.
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| 6.Suspension Bridges | Bridges in which the roadway is suspeneded by steel cables.
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| 7.Time Zones | One for each hour of the day.
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| 8.Mass Production | Factory owners develpoed systems for turning out large numbers of products quickley and inexpensively.
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| 9.Corporation | To take advantage of expanding markets, investors developed a form of group ownership of a business.
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| 10.Monopoly | Complete control of a product or service.
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| 11.Cartel | Businesses making the same product agree to limit their production thus keeping the prices high.
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| 12.Horizontal Intergration | Consolidationg many firms in the same business.
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| 13.Trust | Companies assign their stock to a board of trustees, who combine them into a anew organization.
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| 14.Vertical Intergration | Allowed companies to reducae cost and charge higher prices to competitors.
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| 15.Social Darwinsism | The beleif held by some in the late nineteeth century that nations and races were superior to others and therefore destined to rule the world.
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| 16.Interstae Commerce Commision (ICC) | Oversee railroad operations.
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| 17.Sherman Anititrust Act | Outlawed any trust that operated in restraint of commerce among the several states.
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| 18.Sweatshops | Small,hot,dark,and dirty workhouses.
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| 19.Company Towns | Isolated communites near the workpaces.
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| 20.Collective Barganing | Negotiating as a group for higher wages or better working conditions.
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| 21.Socialism | Economic and political philosphy that favors public, instead of private, control of property and income.
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| 22.Knights of Labor | Labor Union founed by Uriah Smith Stephans in 1869.
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| 23.American Federation of Labor (AFL) | labor union that organized skilled workers for specific tades and made small demands rahter than seeking broad changes.
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| 24.Haymarket Riot | In 1886 labor related protest in Chicago which ended in deadley violence.
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| 25.Homestead Strike | A epedimic of steelworkers and miners strikes that took place as economic depression spread across america.
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| 26.Pullman Strike | Halting both railroad traffic and mail delivery
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