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Chapter 4 Vocab.
Question | Answer |
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Entreprenuer | Person who invests money in a product or business with the goal of making a profit. |
Protective Tariff | Tax on imported googs making the price high enough to protect domestic goods from foreign compeitions. |
Laissez-faire | Lenient, as in the absence of government control over a private business. |
Patent | Offical rightd given by the government to an inventor for the exclusive right to develop, use,and sell an invention for s set period of time. |
Bassemer Process | Method developed in the mid-1800s for mskinh steel more efficiently. |
Suspension Bridge | Bridge that has a roadwaysupsended by cables. |
Time Zone | Any of the 24 longitudunal areas of the world within which the same time is used. |
Mass Production | Production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assenbly lines. |
Corporation | Company recongnized as a legal unit that has rights and liabilites separate from each of its members. |
Monopoly | Exclusive control by one company over an entire industry. |
Cartel | Associations of production of a good or service that pricels and cntrols stocks in order to monopolize the market. |
Horizontal Intergration | System of consolidating many firms in the same business. |
Trust | Group of separate companies that are placed under the control of a single managing board in order to form a monopoly. |
Vertical Intergration | System of consolidating firms involved in all steps of a product's manufacture. |
Social Darwinism | The belief held by some in the late nineteenth century that certain nations and races were superior to others and therefore destined torule over them. |
TCC | First federal agency monitoring business operations,created in 1887 to oversee interstate railroad procedures. |
Sherman Antitrust Act | 1890 law banning any trust that restrained interstatetrade or commerce. |
Swearshop | Samll factory where employees have to work long hours under poor conditions for little pay. |
Company Town | Community whose residents rely on upon one company for jobs, housing, and shopping. |
Collective Bargaining | Processin which employers negotiate with labor unions about hours, wages, and other working conditions. |
Socialism | System or theory under which the means of production are publicly controlled and regulated rather then owned by individuals. |
Knights of Labor | Labor union that sought to organize all workers and focused on broad social reforms. |
AFL | In 1955, the American Ferderation of Labor (AFL), and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor unions united. |
Haymarket Riot | 1886 labor-realted protest in Chicago which ended in deadly violence. |
Homestead Strike | 1892 strike against Carnegie's steelwork in Homestead, Pennsylvannia. |
Pullman Strike | Violent 1894 railway workers' strike which began outside of Chicago spread nationwaide. |