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34 Cards in this Set
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William Wilberforce |
led the antislavery movement in England |
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Queen Victoria |
longest reigning monarch in British history |
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welfare state |
where the government assumes the responsibility for the material and social well-being of every individual; "from the cradle to the grave" |
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socialism |
the government owns the means of production and the distribution of goods; it emphasizes the group rather than the individual; it replaces individual initiative with collectivism |
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Charles Dickens |
author who gave vivid descriptions of the bleak conditions of industrial cities and debtor's prisons |
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William Booth |
founded the Salvation Army |
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D. L. Moody |
evangelist in England and America |
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George Mueller |
founded orphanages |
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Robert Raikes |
founded Sunday Schools in London |
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C. H. Spurgeon |
"Prince of Preachers" |
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George Williams |
founded the YMCA |
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Bohr |
model of an atom |
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Curie |
discovered radioactive matter |
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Dalton |
atomic theory |
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Darwin |
evolution |
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Einstein |
E=mc2; theory of relativity |
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Mendeleev |
periodic table |
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Roentgen |
x-rays |
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Rutherford |
nucleus and electrons |
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Courbet |
famous realist painter |
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Debussy |
composer of impressionistic music |
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Monet |
French impressionist painter |
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Rodin |
one of the foremost sculptors of the nineteenth century; best known for his sculpture "The Thinker" |
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Tolstoy |
great Russian novelist; wrote Anna Karenina and War and Peace |
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Van Gogh |
forerunner of expressionism in painting |
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Richard Arkwright |
Father of the Industrial Revolution |
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Henry Ford |
one of the first American auto manufacturers to use assembly lines |
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List the four new production method that helped manufacturers produce more at cheaper prices. |
automation interchangeable parts division of labor the assembly line |
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What form of socialism is pursued in most communist countries including China, North Korea, the former Soviet Union, Cuba and Vietnam? |
Marxism |
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What force did Carl Marx believe determined the course of history? |
economic factors |
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In what famous work did Carl Marx explain his socialist ideas? |
Das Kapital |
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The Industrial Revolution had its start in what industry? |
textile |
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What interest did James Watt, Richard Trevithick, and Robert Fulton have in common? |
steam |
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What nation led the way in social reform? |
Great Britain |
