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