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Free enterprise is usually a characteristic of a capitalist system. Free enterprise is the idea that people are free to operate their businesses with little, if any, government controls.Free-enterprise capitalism has been a powerful idea throughout American history. Starting in the 1700s, colonists complained against Britain's Navigation Acts because they controlled trade and limited freedom of enterprise. The desire for economic freedom was one of the causes of the American Revolution. The idea of free enterprise remained strong during the 1800s. Many immigrants came to America because its free-enterprise system gave them the freedom to work as they pleased. (Note: Some countries have capitalist systems which grant less freedom of enterprise than others. For example, modern Japan is a capitalist country, but its government places some strong controls on Japanese businesses.)

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