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World History
chapter 9 test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Swedish chemist who invented dynamite; | Alfred Nobel |
| impressionist painter who brushed strokes of color side by side without any blending | Claude Monet |
| Italian pioneer who invented the radio | Guglielmo Marconi |
| French chemist who clearly showed the link between microbes and diseases | Louis Pasteur |
| German composer who combined classical forms with a stirring range of sound | Ludwig van Beethoven |
| measures the quality and availability of necessities and comforts in a society | standard of living |
| shares in a company | stock |
| campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages | temperance movement |
| the process of fixing up the poor areas of a city | urban renewal |
| right of women to vote | women's suffrage |
| A company that sells ownership shares to many investors is a | corporation |
| A production method in which workers repeatedly perform one task in the manufacturing process is called | assembly line |
| An artist of the mid-1800s who portrayed the harsh lives of slum dwellers was probably using what artistic style? | realism |
| Bedford College in England and Mount Holyoke in the United States were among the first colleges for | women |
| Englishman John Dalton made an important breakthrough in chemistry by showing that | each element has its own kind of atoms |
| In 1869, what chemist developed a table that became the basis for the periodic table of elements used today? | Dmitri Mendeleyev |
| In the late 1800s, what did Charles Lyell accomplish? | He offered evidence to show that the earth had formed over millions of years |
| Japan lacked many basic resources, yet it industrialized rapidly after 1868 because | of political revolution that made modernization a priority |
| Reformers in what movement argued that the use of alcoholic beverages harmed family life and reduced worker productivity? | temperance movement |
| Romanticism can be described as a revolt against the Enlightenment’s emphasis on | reason |
| Russia did not industrialize as soon as other countries because it lacked | political stability |
| The Bessemer process was a method for producing | steel from iron |
| The popular saying “A man’s home is his castle” reflected what middle-class value of the late 1800s? | cult of domesticity |
| The population of Europe exploded between 1800 and 1900 in large part because | death rate fell |
| The purpose of Normal Schools was to train students to be | teachers |
| The technology for America’s first textile factory came from | Britain |
| Today’s electric generators work on the same principle as the dynamo invented by | Michael Faraday |
| What contribution to medical science did German doctor Robert Koch make in the 1880s? | Identified the bacterium that caused tuberculosis |
| What did Mathew B. Brady accomplish in the visual arts? | preserved a vivid, realistic record of the corpse-strewn battlefields |
| What limited the effectiveness of women involved in the temperance movement? | they could not vote and were banned from schools |
| What invention did the internal combustion engine make possible? | Wright brothers flying machine |
| What postimpressionist painter used a style that looked like “primitive” folk art? | Paul Gaugin |
| What theory applied the idea of natural selection to the development of business and society? | social darwinism |
| Who discovered that sterilizing surgical instruments with antiseptics would help prevent infection? | Joseph Lister |
| Who were the writers of the realism movement? | Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo |
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