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CH.4 Vocab
chapter 4 vocab
Question | Answer |
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entrepreneur | person who invests money on a product or business with the goal of making a profit |
protective tariff | tax on imported goods making the price high enough to protect domestic goods from foreign competition |
laissez faire | lenient, as in the absence of government control over private business |
patent | official rights granted to an inventor by the government, for sole possession, and distribution, and also manufacturing rights |
Thomas Edison | inventor who established a research laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey |
Bessemer process | a process of producing steel, in which impurities are removed by forcing a blast of air through molten iron |
Suspension Bridge | a bridge having a deck suspended from cables anchored at their extremities and usually raised on towers |