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Sexton chapter 9
Bellevue West Chapter 9
Question | Answer |
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Dynamo | Machine used to generate electricity |
Interchangeable parts | Identical components that can be used in place of one another in manufactoring |
Assembly line | Industrial production method that breaks down a complex job into a series of smaller task |
Stock | Shares in a company |
Corporation | Business owned by many investors who buy shares of stock and risk only the amount of their investments |
Cartel | association of large corporations formed to fix prices, set production quotas, or divide up markets |
Germ theory | Idea that certain microbes might cause specific infectious diseases |
Urban Renewal | Rebuilding of the poor areas of a city |
Mutual-aid society | Self-help group set up to aid sick and injured workers |
Standard of living | Measures the quality and availability of necessities and comforts in a society |
Cult of domesticity | Idealization of women and the home |
Temperance Movement | Campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages |
Women's Suffrage | The right of women to vote |
Racism | Belief that one racial group is superior to another |
Social Gospel | Movement in the 1800's that urged Christians to do social service |
Romanticism | Nineteenth-century artistic movement that appealed to emotion rather than reason |
Realism | Artistic movement whose aim was to represent the world as it is |
Impressionism | School of painting of the late 1800's and early 1900's that tried to capture fleeting visual impressions |