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World History Chp 9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Invented dynamite and the nobel prize | Alfred Nobel |
| Impressionist painter who did not blend brushstrokes | Claude Monet |
| Invented the radio | Guglielmo Marconi |
| Showed the link between microbes and disease, developed vaccines, and discovered pasteurization | Louis Pasteur |
| Combined classical and stirring range of sound | Ludwig van Beethoven |
| Measures the quality and availability of necessities and comforts in society | Standard of living |
| Shares in big companies to investors | Stock |
| Campaign to band alcohol | Temperance Movement |
| Rebuilding the poorer areas of a city | Urban Renewal |
| Women's right to vote | Women's suffrage |
| A company that sells ownership shared to many investors is a | corporation |
| A production method in which workers repeatedly perform one task in the manufacturing process is called an | 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 US were among the first colleges for | Women |
| Englishman John Dalton made an important breakthrough in chemistry by showing that | everything is made up of atoms |
| In 1869, what chemist developed a table that became the basis for the periodic table of elements used today? | Mendeleyev |
| In that late 1800s, what did Charles Lyell accomplish? | he was a pioneer in the new science of geology |
| Japan lacked many basic resources, yet it industrialized rapidly after 1868 because | of a political reformation that made modernization a priority |
| Reformers in what movement argued that the use of alcohlic beverages harmed family life and reduced productivity? | Temperance |
| 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 | good social and political conditions |
| The Bessemer process was a method used for producing | Steel |
| The popular saying "A man's home is his castle" reflected what middle class value of the late 1800's? | Cult of domesticity |
| The population of Europe exploded between 1800 and 1900 in large part because | the death rate fell because of medical advances |
| The purpose of Normal School 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 Farraday |
| What contribution to medical science did German doctor Robert Koch make in the 1800s? | Identified the bacterium that causes tuberculosis |
| What did Matthew B. BRADY accomplish in the visual arts? | He preserved pictures of corpse-strewn battlefields |
| What invention did the internal combustion engine make possible? | The flying machine |
| What limited the effectiveness of women involved in the temperance movement? | They could not vote and were banned from schools. They also weren't taken very seriously |
| What post-impressionist painter used a style that looked like "primitive" folk art? | Paul Gauguin |
| 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? | Dickens, Hugo, and Zola |
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