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U.S. History

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Laissez fair   a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering  
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Entrepreneur   a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so  
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Protective Tariff   duty imposed on imports to raise their price, making them less attractive to consumers and thus protecting domestic industries from foreign competition  
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Patent   a government authority or license conferring a right or title for a set period, especially the sole right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention  
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Bessemer Process   a steel-making process, now largely superseded, in which carbon, silicon, and other impurities are removed from molten pig iron by oxidation in a blast of air in a special tilting retort  
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Suspension Bridge   a bridge in which the weight of the deck is supported by vertical cables suspended from larger cables that run between towers and are anchored in abutments at each end.  
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Time Zone   an area or stretch of land having a particular characteristic, purpose, or use, or subject to particular restrictions  
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Mass Production   The manufacture of goods in large quantities by machinery and by use of techniques such as the assembly line and division of labor  
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Corporation   a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law  
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Monopoly   the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service  
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Cartel   an association of manufacturers or suppliers with the purpose of maintaining prices at a high level and restricting competition  
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Horizontal Integration   process of a company increasing production of goods or services at the same part of the supply chain  
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Trust   confidence placed in a person by making that person the nominal owner of property to be held or used for the benefit of one or more others  
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Vertical Integration   the combination in one company of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate companies  
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Social Darwinism   the theory that individuals, groups are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals.  
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Sweatshop   a factory or workshop, especially in the clothing industry, where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions  
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Company town   place where practically all stores and housing are owned by the one company that is also the main employer  
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Collective bargaining   negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees  
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Socialism   a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole  
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