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Chapter 4 voab

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Entrepreneurs   People who invent money in a product or enterprise in order to make a profit.  
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Protective Tariffs   Taxes placed on imported good making them more expensive than locally made items.  
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Laissez-faire   Allowed businesses to run under minimal government regulations.  
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Patent   Grant from government giving rights to sell and produce inventions for a period of time.  
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Bessemer Process   A process of purifying iron to make in stronger and more efficiently.  
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Suspension Bridges   Bridges over roads suspended by steel cables.  
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Time Zones   One for each hour of the day.  
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Mass Production   Depends on machinery to make goods at much faster rate than products made with hand tools.  
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Corporations   A form of ownership with a group of investors.  
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Monopoly   The only place that sells a certain product or service; therefore has control of how much a service costs.  
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Cartel   An urge to shut down small businesses to create monopolies.  
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Horizontal Integration   Creation of large firms that own many small businesses.  
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A Trust   Companies give stock to trustees that then in return place that stock in the hands of other companies.  
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Vertical Integration   Companies lowered costs to public and charged other companies more.  
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Social Darwinism   Applying Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution to recent economic situations. (Survival of the fittest.)  
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Interstate Commerce Commission   Government operations to oversee railroads  
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Sherman Antitrust Act   Allowed Trusts  
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Sweatshops   dirty, dark work house. (Mostly under-paid immigrants.)  
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Company Towns   Workers forced to live in areas really close to work.  
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Collective bargaining   a group FOR higher wages and better working conditions  
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Socialism   Economic/Political philosophy that likes public control over property and income.  
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Knights of Labor   Labor unions devoted to replacing capitalism.  
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American Federation of Labor   group on unions with specific trades and skills.  
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Haymarket Riot   Riot breaking out in Chicago that killed two policemen and 6 anarchist.  
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Homestead strike   strike of steelworkers and miners that cause small economic depression.  
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Pullman Strike   300,000 railroad workers quit their jobs and that stopped most of all mail and resource transportation.  
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