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By the mid 1800s Germany & the U.S. joined Britain as _____.

Industrial powers
Both Germany & the U.S. used __________ to industrialize.
British technology
Like Britain the newly industrialized nations experienced _______.
Urbanization
Invented a new way of making steel from Iron.
Henry Bessemer
Invented dynamite for use in construction.
Alfred Nobel
Created the first Dynamo.
Michael Faraday
A machine that makes electricity and resulted in electricity replacing steam as the main source of power.
the Dynamo
Contributed the concept of interchangeable parts.
Eli Whitney
Using machines to create uniform, exchangeable goods/parts.
Interchangeable parts
Each worker performs a specialized task
division of labor
A product is assembled by a division of labor as it moves along a conveyor belt.
Assembly line
Used the assembly line to mass produce Model T automobiles.
Henry Ford
Developed a practical incandescent light bulb.
Thomas Edison
Enabled cities and factories to function at night.
electric light bulb
First to build a self powered airplane.
Orville and Wilbur Wright
The telegraph and telephone made the exchange of information nearly ______.
instantaneous
He invented the Radio.
Guglielmo Marconi
To raise capital entrepreneurs sold ______.
stock
A share or partial ownership in a company.
stock
Business owned by stockholders
Corporation
Provide capital and disperse risk.
Corporations
By the late 1800s it dominated industry.
"Big Business"
French Chemist who demonstrated the link between germs and disease.
Louis Pasteur
German doctor identified the cause of tuberculosis.
Robert Koch
British hospital reformer raised standards for care and cleanliness.
Florence Nightingale
Discovered that antiseptics prevent disease.
Joseph Lister
Major efforts to improve the living conditions of cities which started in the last half of the 19th century.
Urban Renewal
Despite efforts at urban renewal cities and factories remained harsh places for the ___.
poor
Pressured by unions, reformers, and working class voters, governments did pass laws that ______.
improved working conditions
Middle class values that encouraged women to stay at home and care for the family.
Cult of domesticity
In the late 1800s they began to seek fairness in marriage, divorce, and property laws.
women
Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Sojourner Truth worked for _______.
Women's suffrage
Franchise and suffrage.
right to vote
Because they believed education would create better workers, reformers persuaded many governments to set up ______.
public schools
Developed the theory of Natural Selection.
Charles Darwin
Chance variations are selected by nature in a struggle for existence.
Natural selection
Variations are selected because they are _____.
fit for survival
Darwin's theory of natural selection was A theory of ______.
evolution
Discovered that all elements are composed of atoms, and that all atoms of an element are identical and unlike the atoms of other elements.
John Dalton
A movement among Christians to improve society.
Social Gospel
A movement in which artists would emphasize human emotion and imagination over reason.
Romanticism
Romanticism was a reaction to the formal and rational style of the ____.
Enlightenment
William Wordsworth, William Blake, Lord Byron, Victor Hugo, & Ludwig van Beethoven.
Romantics
Rejected the sentimentality of romanticism, & sought to portray life in a realistic manner.
Realism
Charles Dickens' shocking images of; poverty, the mistreatment of Children, and urban crime were examples of _________.
realism
Sought to capture the momentary impression a subject made on the senses.
Impressionists
Part of the reason for the development of impressionism was that the painter could never compete with the new photographer in ____.
realism
Painting that focused on light and color in the natural world.
Impressionism
Movement of individual style created to express chaos and complexity.

Postimpressionism