World History Chapter 20 Study Guide

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Created an electrical circuit to send human voice

Patented telephone in 1876

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Guglielmo Marconi

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invented instruments to receive waves- wireless telegraph

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Wright Brothers

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Wilbur and Orville Wright
Kitty Hawk, NC 1903
Studied aerodynamics
Invented the airplane

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Charles Darwin

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Theory of evolution

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Louis Pasteur

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identified bacteria (can reproduce and travel everywhere)
Pasteurization – heat liquid to kill bacteria

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Atomic Theory

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1) All matter is made of atoms. Atoms are indivisible and indestructible.
2) All atoms of a given element are identical in mass and properties
3) Compounds are formed by a combination of two or more different kinds of atoms.
4) A chemical reaction is a rearrangement of atoms.

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Albert Einstein

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Invented the Theories of relativity

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Psychology

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*Studies the human mind
Sigmund Freud
 Austrian physician
 New concept of unconscious to determine human behavior
 Studied dreams- encouraged patients to talk about what was on their mind
 Troubled patients- unpleasant experiences in their unconscious- psychoanalysis

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Sociology

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 Study of human relationships in society

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Social Darwinism

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lost influence over time

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suburb

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residential areas on the outskirts of cities

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improvements to diet

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*Science and technology improved methods *Refrigeration- houses and railroad cars
*Helped balance diet all year round
*Biologist learned more about food and health
*Life expectancy and population increase

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Education Growth

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*Argument for women’s education
*1800s- elementary school for girls
*High school- limited opportunities
*US-Mount Holyoke Female Seminary- 1837
*Great Britain- Griton College- 1869
*Newnham College- 1871

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Romanticism

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 Artistic movement
‘romance of life’
Reaction to enlightenment and revolutions
Creativity and indivuduality 
Idelaized nature and past
Great Britain- young poets– emotion, love for beauty, nature

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Realism

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Dealt with realities of everyday life

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Photography

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Jacques- Mande Daguerre- daguerreotype (1839)
Significant impact on society
Captured nature, showed how poor people lived
Helped give rise to realism

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Regionalism

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the portrayal of everyday life w/ attention to how it was lived in particular locales

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Naturalists

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Naturalists- described ugly and dirty aspects of life
 Emile Zola
 Charles Dickens

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Impressionism

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 1860s-1870s
 Vivid impression of how people appeared in the moment
 Studied light and color (patched of colors side by side)

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Impressionists

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 Claude Monet
 Pierre- Auguste Renior
 Experiments in Art
 Paul Cezanne- abstract qualities of shape and color
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Post- impressionists

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Paul Gauguin
 Henri Matisse
 Vincent van Gogh
 Edgar Degas
 Henri Toulouse- Lautrec
 Edouard Manet
 Auguste Rodin