Across
- 5. Taxes that made imported goods cost more than those made in the United States
- 7. The freedom to run a business for profit with minimal regulation beyond what is necessary to protect the public interest.
- 10. Delegates from 27 countries divide the globe into 24 time zones, one for each hour of the day.
- 11. Bridges in which the roadway is suspended by steel cable
- 12. A grant by the federal government giving an inventor the exclusive right to develop, use, and sell an invention for a set period of time
Down
- 1. A process for purifying iron to make strong, but lightweight, steel.
- 2. Systems for turning out large numbers of products quickly and inexpensively.
- 3. Crops such as cotton and tobacco, which were grown not for their own use but to be sold for cash.
- 4. An entrepreneur who thrived in the American free enterprise system
- 6. People who build and manage businesses or enterprises in order to make a profit.
- 8. Policies that allowed businesses to operate under minimal government regulation.
- 9. Inventor that established a research laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey in 1876.