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WHT
World History Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Temperance Movement | movement against alcohol |
| Urban Renewal | rebuilding of the por areas of a city, took place in Paris in the 1850's |
| Alfred Nobel | invented dynamite |
| Claud Monet | impressionist artist who brushed strokes side by side without any blending |
| Louis Pasteur | french chemist who was the first to clearly show the link between microboes and disease |
| Ludwig Van Beethoven | classical german composer who was the first to take full advantage of the broad range of instruments in the modern orchestra |
| Marconi | invented the radio |
| women's suffrage | women's right to vote |
| stock | shares in companies sold to investors to gain capital |
| standard of living | measures the quality and availability of necessities and comforts in a society |
| Why was Japan able to industrialize rapidly after 1868? | because of a political revolution that made modernization a priority |
| Who invented the dynamo? | Michael Faraday |
| Know the definition for an assembly line. | a new method of production in which a product goes from station to station |
| Why did the people of Europe explode between 1800 and 1900? | the death rate fell due to better nutrition and more efficient food production |
| Know the Cult of Domesticity and its values | Idealized women and the home |
| Who was John Dalton and what did he do? | English Quaker and schoolteacher who developed modern atomic theory |
| What theory tried to apply darwin's natural selection to society and business? | social darwinism |
| Know what romanticism was. | movement in art and literature |
| what kind of artistic style would a painter of the mid 1800s have used to portray slum life? | realism |
| What was the bessemer process used for? | making steel from iron |
| The internal combustion engine: what invention did it make possible? | the automobil |
| What do you call a company that sells ownership shares to investors? | Corporations |
| What did Dr. Robert Koch do? | identified the bacterium that caused tuberculosis |
| Who discovered that you need to sterilize surgical instruments? | Florence Nightingale and Joseph Lister |
| What limited the effectiveness of the women in the temperature movement? | women couldn't vote, had little protection under the law, and their property was owned by their husbands. |
| What movement believed that alcohol should be banned because it harms family life? | temperature movement |
| What type of colleges were Bedford College and Mt. Holyoke? | women's colleges |
| Which chemist came up with the first periodic table of elements? | John Dalton |
| Know which writers were associated with the realism movement? | Dickens and Hugo |
| Which painter had a style that looked like primitive folk art? | Van Gogh |
| Who was Matthew Brady and what did he do? | a photographer who preserved a vivid, realistic record of the corpse-strewn battlefields |
| Who was Charles Lyell and what did he do? | author and geologist who proposed that the earth was formed over millions of years |
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