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9 Cards in this Set
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Market Revolution |
The major change in the U.S. economy produced by people's beginning to buy and sell goods rather than make them themselves |
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Free Enterprise |
The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with little government regulation |
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Entrepreneurs |
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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Samuel F. B. Morse |
Contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs |
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Lowell textile mills |
Textile mills in Lowell |
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Strike |
Work stoppage to force an employer to respond to demands |
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Immigration |
Leaving one country and settling in another |
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National Trades' Union |
A defined group of employees formed for the purposes of representing those employees with the employer as to the terms of a collective contract of employment |
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Commonwealth v. Hunt |
A case in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on the subject of labor unions. Prior to Hunt the legality of labor combinations in America was uncertain |
