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World History Chp 9

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Invented dynamite and the nobel prize   Alfred Nobel  
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Impressionist painter who did not blend brushstrokes   Claude Monet  
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Invented the radio   Guglielmo Marconi  
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Showed the link between microbes and disease, developed vaccines, and discovered pasteurization   Louis Pasteur  
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Combined classical and stirring range of sound   Ludwig van Beethoven  
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Measures the quality and availability of necessities and comforts in society   Standard of living  
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Shares in big companies to investors   Stock  
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Campaign to band alcohol   Temperance Movement  
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Rebuilding the poorer areas of a city   Urban Renewal  
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Women's right to vote   Women's suffrage  
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A company that sells ownership shared to many investors is a   corporation  
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A production method in which workers repeatedly perform one task in the manufacturing process is called an   Assembly line  
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An artist of the mid-1800s who portrayed the harsh lives of slum dwellers was probably using what artistic style?   Realism  
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Bedford College in England and Mount Holyoke in the US were among the first colleges for   Women  
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Englishman John Dalton made an important breakthrough in chemistry by showing that   everything is made up of atoms  
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In 1869, what chemist developed a table that became the basis for the periodic table of elements used today?   Mendeleyev  
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In that late 1800s, what did Charles Lyell accomplish?   he was a pioneer in the new science of geology  
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Japan lacked many basic resources, yet it industrialized rapidly after 1868 because   of a political reformation that made modernization a priority  
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Reformers in what movement argued that the use of alcohlic beverages harmed family life and reduced productivity?   Temperance  
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Romanticism can be described as a revolt against the Enlightenment's emphasis on   Reason  
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Russia did not industrialize as soon as other countries because it lacked   good social and political conditions  
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The Bessemer process was a method used for producing   Steel  
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The popular saying "A man's home is his castle" reflected what middle class value of the late 1800's?   Cult of domesticity  
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The population of Europe exploded between 1800 and 1900 in large part because   the death rate fell because of medical advances  
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The purpose of Normal School was to train students to be   teachers  
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The technology for America's first textile factory came from   Britain  
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Today's electric generators work on the same principle as the dynamo invented by   Michael Farraday  
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What contribution to medical science did German doctor Robert Koch make in the 1800s?   Identified the bacterium that causes tuberculosis  
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What did Matthew B. BRADY accomplish in the visual arts?   He preserved pictures of corpse-strewn battlefields  
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What invention did the internal combustion engine make possible?   The flying machine  
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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  
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What post-impressionist painter used a style that looked like "primitive" folk art?   Paul Gauguin  
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What theory applied the idea of natural selection to the development of business and society?   Social Darwinism  
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Who discovered that sterilizing surgical instruments with antiseptics would help prevent infection?   Joseph Lister  
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Who were the writers of the realism movement?   Dickens, Hugo, and Zola  
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