Life in the Industrail Age Flashcards

(37 cards)

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Dynamo

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machine that generates electricity

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Interchangeable parts

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identical components that can be used in place or another one

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3
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Stock

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shares in companies

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4
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Cartel

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association to set prices

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5
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Germ theory

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link between microbes and disease

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6
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Urban Renewal

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rebuilding of the poorareas of a city

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Mutual-aid living

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self-help groups to aid sick or injured workers

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8
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Cult of domesticity

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idealized women and the home

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Temperance movement

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campaingn to limit or banthe use of alcoholic beverages

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10
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Women’s suffrage

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womans right to vote

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Racism

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bellet that one racial group is superior to another

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12
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Social gospel

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movement that urged Christians to social service

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13
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Romanticism

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words worth was part of a cultural movement

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Realism

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new artistic movement

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Impressionism

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photography in paris

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16
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Bessemer process

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purity iron ore

17
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Atomic Theory

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everything is made of atoms

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Natural Selection

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survival of the fittest

19
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Social Darwinism

20
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Salvation Army

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collects money for the army

21
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assembly line

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added parts along the belt

22
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corporation

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businesses that are owned by many investors who buy shares of stock

23
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Standard of living

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quality and availability of necessities and comforts in a society

24
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Alfred Nobel

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created the noble prize

25
Michael Faraday
created first simple electric motor and dynamo
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Henery Ford
assembly line
27
Orville/Wulbur Wright
airplanes
28
What are three technological advances that helped industy grow?
1. Steel: lighter and harder than iron 2. Chemicals: medicines, soaps and perfumes 3. Electricity: the lightbulb and power to factories
29
Define the term corporation and explain the connection between technology and the growth of these new ways of doing business
- Corporation: businesses that are owned by many investors who buy shares and stock - were able to make more factories and more products with technology so they earned more money.
30
Louis Pasteur
clearly linked microbes and disease - developed vaccines against rabbies and anthrax - discovery of pasteuraization
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Robert Koch
identified bacteria that caused tuberculosis - lower death rates - people bathed and cleaned themselves more
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Florence Nightingale
insisted on better hygiene in the field hospitals | -founded first school of nursing
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Joseph Lister
discovered how antiseptics prevented infection - got surgens to wash their hads before operating - drasticly reduced deaths from infection
34
Three ways the lives of workers who lived in cities changed during the later Industrial Revolution
1. Landscape: factories were easy to walk to 2. Sidewalks, Sewers and Skyscrapers: More thing to build and more homes to make for neighborhoods. 3. Lure of the City: provided multiple jobs for everyones needs
35
compare the responses of realist and romantic artist to the industrial world.
``` Realist: -realistic view of life -extreme Romantic: -ideal view of life -simple ```
36
Explain how Social Darwinism encouraged racism.
it claimed that the succes of western civilization was due to the supremacy of the white race.
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During the period of industrialization the economy shifted from agricultural to industrial. How did this change affect the social order?
1. farmers moved to the city to work in factories 2. large capital was made 3. Safer surroundings were made - so social order turned to be good.