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coach ed’s midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Invented the radio | Guglielmo marconi |
| Reform movement concerned with voting rights | Women’s suffrage |
| discovered the link between microbes and diseases | Louis Pasteur |
| A measure of the quality and availability of necessities and comfort in a society | Standards of living |
| Invented dynamite, a safer form of explosive than others at the time. | Alfred Nobel |
| Impressionist painter who relied on the viewers eye to blend brush strokes into patches of color | Claude Monet |
| Romantic composer who was the first to take full advantage of the broad range of instruments in the modern orchestra | Ludwig van beethoven |
| Shares of ownership in a corporate | Stock |
| Advocated limiting or banning the use of alcoholic beverages | Temperance movement |
| Rebuilding poor areas of a city | Urban renewal |
| why did japan lack basic resources, yet it industrialized rapidly after 1868? | A political revolution that made modernization a priority |
| Today’s electric generations work on the same time principle as the dynamo invented by who? | Michael faraday |
| A production method in which workers repeatedly perform one task in the manufacturing process | Assembly line |
| The population of Europe exploded between 100 and 1900 in large parts because... | Death rate fell |
| the saying “A man’s home is his castle” reflected what middle class value of the late 1800’s? | The man is the head of the house |
| The purpose of “normal schools” were to train students to be | better citizens |
| Englishmen John dalton made an important breakthrough in chemistry by showing that | Each element has it own kind of atom |
| What theory applied the idea of natural selection to development of business society? | Darwinism |
| Romanticism can be described as a revolt against the enlightenment’s emphasis on | Imagination freedom |
| An artist of the mid-1800’s who portrayed the harsh lives of slum dwellers was probably using what artistic style? | Realism |