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25 Cards in this Set
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1) who invented the RADIO?
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1) Guglielmo MARCONI
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2) What is rebuilding poor areas of a CITY called?
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2) URBAN RENEWEL
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3) who established a link between microbes and disease?
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3) LOUIS PASTEUR
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4) what are SHARES OF OWNERSHIP in a corporation
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4) STOCK
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5) what is the reform movement concerned with VOTING RIGHTS?
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5) WOMEN's SUFFERAGE
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6) what is a measure of the quality, necessities and comforts in a Society?
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6) STANDARD OF LIVING
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7) who is am IMPRESSIONIST painter who relied on the viewers eye?
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7) CLAUDE MONET
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8) Who invented DYNAMITE?
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8) Alfred NOBEL
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9) who is a Romantic Composer of the Modern Orchestra?
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9) Ludwig van BEETHOVEN
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10) What advocated limiting or bannin g alchohol?
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10) temperence movement
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11) who did the NORMAL SCHOOLS Train
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11) Teachers
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12) what is a production line where you repeat one task on the manufacturing --what is it called?
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12) The Assembly Line
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13) who invented the same as today's electric generators?
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13) MICHAEL FARADAY
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14) where did the technology from the first textile factory come from?
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14) BRITAIN
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15) who discovered that sterilizing surgical instruments with anteseptics would prevent infection?
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15) JOE LISTER
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16) what did Matthew B. Brady do in visual arts?
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16) pictures of the CIVIL WAR
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17) what were Bedford College in England and Holyoke College in MA the first colleges for?
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17) Women
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18) what was the BESSEMER process a method of producing?
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18) STEEL
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19) who discovered the PERIODIC Table?
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19) DMITRI MENDELEYEV
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20) what is a company that sells ownership shares to many investors called?
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20) CORPORATION
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21) what did Russia lack so it did not industrialize as soon as others
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21) political stability
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22) why did the population of Europe explode between 1800 and 1900?
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22) medical advances reduced the death rate (this means less people died)
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23) what does "A man's home is is castle" come from
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23) the cult of domesticity (casue domestic means house)
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24) what did Doctor Robert KOCH make?
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24) idenfied BACTERIA that caused tuberculosis
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25) what limited women with the temperence movement?
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25) they could not VOTE or go to school
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