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| Patent | A patent is a grant by the federal government giving an inventor the exclusive right to develop,use, and sell an inventions for a set period of time.
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| Entrepreneur | People who invest in a product or enterprise in order to make a profit.
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| Protective tariff | Taxes that would make imported goods cost more than those made locally.
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| Laissez faire | Police's that allowed businesses to operate under minimal government regulation.
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| Suspension bridges | Bridges with roadways suspended by steel cables.
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| Time zone | Any of the 24 longitudinal areas of the world within which same time is used.
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| Mass production | A system for turning out large numbers of products quickly and inexpensively.
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| Corporation | A group of people sharing ownership of a business.
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| Monopoly | Complete control of a product or service.
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| Cartel | Association of producers of a good or service that prices and control stocks in order to monopolize the market.
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| Horizontal integration | System of consolidating many firms in the same business
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| Trust | Companies assign their stock to a bored of trustees, who combine then into a new organization.
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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 therefore destined to rule over them.
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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 resident rely upon one company for jobs, housing, and shopping.
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| Collective bargaining | Process in which employers negotiate with labor unions 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 owed by individuals.
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| Bessemer process | Method developed in the mid-1800s for making steel for more efficiently.
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| Entrepreneur | Person who invests money in a product or business with the goal of making a profit.
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