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WH Chapter 9 Vocab
Vocabulary of the Industrial Revolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| assembly line | workers add parts to a product that moves on a belt from one work station to another |
| interchangeable parts | identical components that can can be used in place of one another |
| stocks | shares in a company |
| corporations | buisnesses that are wened by many investors who buy shares of stock |
| cartel | an asociation to fix proces, set production rates or control markets |
| germ theory | the rpeculation that cirtain microbes might cause specific infectious diseases |
| urban renewal | rebuildingg the poor areas of a city |
| mutual-aid societies | self-help groups to aid sick or injured workers |
| standard of living | a measure of the quality and avaliblility, necessity and comforts in a society |
| cult of domesticity | idea that idelized the place of the women in the home |
| temperance movement | the campeign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages |
| racism | the belief that one group (race) is superior to another |
| social gospel | the movement that urged christians to social services |
| romaticism | cultural movement of art whcihc reblled against the enlightenment ideas and appealed instead to exciting the emotions of its audiance |
| realism | a cultural movement that attempted to represent the world as it really is |
| impressionism | new art movement that sought to capture the first fleeting images of the viewer's eyes |
| recession | a period of reduced economic activity |
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