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15 Cards in this Set
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"King Cholera" |
outbreaks in Britain of a bacterial disease |
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Edwin Chadwick |
leads the charge in ridding Great Britain of disease and disgusting living conditions in the streets |
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Baron von Hausman |
a French civic planner whose name is associated with the rebuilding of Paris. |
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North Europe |
the most prosperous region of Europe during the Second Industrial Revolution |
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1881 |
England puts its first power station in London |
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Diversified Middle Class |
consisted of professionals in law, medicine, and the civil service as well as industrialists and merchants |
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Lower Middle Class |
consisted of small shopkeepers, traders, manufacturers, and prosperous peasants |
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Belle Epoque |
name for the positive view of the 1870s in Europe: no major wars, industry/wealth, middle class is dominating, galleries/music halls/theaters, education, universal male suffrage |
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Louis Pasteur |
Germ Theory: A French chemist, this man discovered that heat could kill bacteria that otherwise spoiled liquids including milk, wine, and beer. |
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Joseph Listor |
Antiseptic Principle: learned to reduce surgery deaths by keeping his hands and instruments clean. |
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Dimitri Mendeleev |
developed the periodic table of the elements in 1869 |
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Michael Faraday |
the English physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction |
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August Comte |
Father of Sociology: used positivism which was a belief that the world can best be understood through scientific inquiry |
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Charles Darwin |
wrote "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection". Came up with the Theory of Evolution survival of the fittest, which would soon be controversial with the church |
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Thomas Huxley |
"Darwin's Bulldog": the biggest supporter of Charles Darwin and his theories |
