Ch 21 Test Flashcards

(37 cards)

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Alfred Nobel

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Invented dynamite

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Urban renewal

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Rebuilding of the poor areas of a city

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Claude monet

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Brushed strokes of color side by side without any bleeding

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Louis Pasteur

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Clearly showed the link between microbes and disease

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Ludwig van Beethoven

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Combined classical forms with a stirring range of sound

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Guglielmo Marconi

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Invented the radio

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Women’s suffrage

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Women’s right to vote

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Stock

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Shares in a company

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Standard of living

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Measures the quality and availability of necessities and comforts in a society

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What helped japan industrialize so rapidly after 1868

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A political revolution that made modernization a priority

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Thomas Edison

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Made the first electric lightbulb

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Benjamin Franklin

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Tinkered with electricity

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Michael faraday

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Created the first simple electric motor and the first dynamo

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Bessemer process

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Make steel from iron. Steel was lighter, harder, and more durable than iron

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Assembly line

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Production method that breaks down a complex job into series of smaller tasks

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Interchangeable parts

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Identical components that could be used in place of one another

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Purpose of normal schools

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Where “norms and standards” of educational practices were taught

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John dalton

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Atomic theory

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Social Darwinism

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The idea of survival of the fittest applied to war and economic competition

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Social gospel

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A movement that urged Christians to social service

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Romanticism

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An artistic style emphasizing imagination, freedom, and emotion

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Realism

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An artistic movement whose aim was to represent the world as it is

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Impressionism

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School of painting of the late 1800s and early 1900s that tried to capture fleeting visual impressions

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Why did Russia fall behind

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Social and political conditions slowed its economic development

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Where did America get it's first textile machines
Britain
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What made skyscrapers possible
Elevators, steel
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What inventions made airplanes and steamboats possible
Internal combustion engine
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Corporation
Business that is owned by many investors who buy shares of stock
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Robert Koch
Identified the bacterium that caused tuberculosis
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Temperance movement
A campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages
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Prohibition
The banning of alcohol
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Bedford college and mount Holyoke
Colleges for women opened by 1840s
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Who invented the periodic table
Dmitri mendeleyev
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Realism writers
Henrik Ibsen, victor Hugo
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Which post impressionist painter had a style that looked like primitive folk art
Paul Gauguin
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Mathew Brady
Preserved a vivid, realistic record of the corpse-strewn battlefields
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Charles Lyell
Offered evidence to show that earth had formed over millions of years ago In "the principles of geology"