Chapter 4 Vocab
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| Entrepreneur | A person who invests money in a product or business with the goal of making a profit.
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| Protective Tariff | Tax on imported good making the price high enough to protect domestic goods from foreign competition.
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| Laissez Faire | Lenient, as in the absence of government control over private businesses.
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| Patent | Official right given by the government to an inventor for the exclusive right to develop, use, and sell an invention for a set period of time.
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| Bessemer Process | Method developed in the mid-1800s for making steel more efficiently.
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| Suspension Bridge | Bridge that has a roadway suspended by cables.
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| Time Zone | Any of the 24 longitudinal areas of the world within which the same time is used.
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| Mass Production | Production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly lines.
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| Corporation | Company recognized as a legal unit that has rights and liabilities separate from each of its members.
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| Monopoly | Exclusive control by on company over an entire industry.
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| Cartel | Association of producers of a good or service that prices and controls stocks in order to monopolize the market.
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| Horizontal Integration | System of consolidating many firms in the same businesses.
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| Trust | Group if separate companies that are placed under the control of a single managing board in order to form a monopoly.
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| Vertical Integration | system of consolidating firms involved in all steps of a product's manufacture.
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| Social Darwinism | The belief held by some in the late nineteenth century that certain nations and races were superior to others and there fore destined to rule over them.
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| ICC | First federal agency monitoring business operations created in 1887 to oversee interstate railroad procedures.
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| Sherman Antitrust Act | 1890 law banning any trust that restrained interstate trade or commerce.
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| Sweatshop | Small factory where employees have to work long hours under poor conditions for little pay.
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| Company Town | Community whose residents rely upon the company for job, housing, and shopping.
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| Collective Bargaining | Process in which employers negotiate with labor union about hours, wages, and other working conditions.
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| Socialism | System or theory under which the means of production are publicly controlled and regulated rather than owned by individuals.
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| Knights of Labor | Labor union that sought to organize all workers and focused on on broad social reforms.
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| AFL | Labor union that organized skilled workers in specific trades and made small demands rather than seeking broad changes.
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| Haymarket Riot | 1886 labor-realted protests in Chicago which ended in a deadly violence
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| Homestead Strike | 1892 law that gave 162 acres of land to citizens willing to live and cultivate it for five years.
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| Pullman Strike | Violent 1894 railway workers' strike which began outside of Chicago and spread nation wide.
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