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18 Cards in this Set
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dynamo
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a machine that generates electricity
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interchageable parts
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identical compontents that could be used in place of one another
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assembly line
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manufactures introduduced another new method of production
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stock
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shares in a company
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corporation
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business owend by many investores who buy shares of stocks and risks only the amount of their investment
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cartel
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asscioation of large corparation formed to fix prices set prosuction quoats o divided up markets
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gern theory
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idea that certian microbes might cause specific infection diseases
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urban renewal
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rebuilding of the poor areas
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mutual-aid society
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self-help group set up to aid sick or injured workers
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standard of living
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measure the quality and availabilty
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cult of domesticity
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idealization of women and the home
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temperance movmnet
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campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages
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women's suffrage
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right of women to vote
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racism
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belief that one racial group is superior to another
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social gospel
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movement of the 1800's that urged Christians to do social service
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romanticism
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19th century artistic movement that appealed to emotion rather than reason
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realism
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artisic mopvement whose aim was to repersent the world as it is
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impressionism
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school of painting of the late 1800's and early 1900's that tried to capture fleetiong visual impression
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