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38 Cards in this Set
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Henry Bessemer |
Developed a new process of making steel from iron |
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Alfred Nobel |
Invented dynamite |
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Michael Faraday |
English chemist who created the first simple electric motor and the first dynamo |
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Dynamo |
Machine that generates electricity |
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Thomas Edison |
Made first electric lightbulb |
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Orville and Wilbur wright |
Designed a flimsy airplane |
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Gugliemo Marconi |
Made the radio |
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Stock |
Shares in companies that go to investors |
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Cartel |
An association to fix prices or control markets |
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Germ theory |
Speculation that certain microbes might cause specific infectious diseases |
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Louis Pasteur |
Helped clearly show the link between microbes and disease and helped develop vaccines against anthrax and rabies |
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Robert Koch |
German dr that identified bacterium that cause tuberculosis |
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Florence nightingale |
Brit nurse who insisted on better hygiene in field hospitals |
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Joseph lister |
English surgeon who found how antiseptics helped prevent infection |
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Urban renewable |
Rebuilding of poor areas of a city |
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Mutual-aid society |
Self help groups to aid the sick or injured workers |
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Standard of living |
Measurement of the quality and availability of necessities and comforts in a society |
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Cult of domesticity |
Idealized woman and the home |
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Temperance movement |
Campsite limit or ban use of alcoholic beverages |
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Elizabeth cast Stanton |
Crusades against slavery and organized women's right movement |
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Women's sufferage |
Women's right to vote in 1800s |
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Sojourner truth |
African American suffragist |
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John dalton |
Developed modern atomic theory |
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Charles Darwin |
British nationalist who published on the origin of species |
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Racism |
Unscientific belief that one racial group is superior to another |
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Social gospel |
Movement that urges Christians to social service |
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William Wordsworth |
Part of romanticism along with William Blake |
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Romanticism |
Artistic style emphasizing imagination, freedom and emotion |
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Lord Byron |
Writer who was a larger than life figure |
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Victor Hugo |
Recreated Frances past in novels |
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Ludwig van Beethoven |
Combined classical forms with a stirring range of sound |
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Realism |
An attempt to represent the world as it was without the sentiment associated with romanticism |
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Charles dickens |
And English novelist who vividly portrayed the lives of slum dwellers and factory workers |
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Gustave Courbet |
French realist |
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Louis Daguerre |
Improved on earlier technologies to produce successful photographs |
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Impressionism |
Capturing the first fleeing impression made by a scene or object imln the viewers eye |
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Claude Monet |
An impressionist who made art with colors without blending |
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Vincent Van Gogh |
Experimented with short brush lines and bright colors |
