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29 Cards in this Set
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What is cartel
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When a group of large businesses bands together to control a single industry
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American architect who designed skyscrapers
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Louis Sullivan
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A business owned by stockholders
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Corporation
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Quaker school teacher who developed modern atomic theory
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John Dalton
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Identical components that speeded both assembly and repair because they could be used in place of another owner
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Interchangeable parts
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A realist English writer who portrayed the lives of slum dwellers
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Charles Dickens
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Protestant churches in Europe and the United States urged their worshipers to become involved in a movement to help others
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Social Group
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Which pair of countries were the world's leading industrial nations in 1990?
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Germany and the United States
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Artist who was part of a movement that aimed to excite strong emotions with their work
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Romanticism
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What was a direct result of the discovery that germs caused a disease?
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Improved Sanitaion
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An artistic movement that attempted to represent the world as it was
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Realism
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The poor lived where during the nineteenth century?
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In tenements near the factories
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Painters who were part of the movement known to focus on capturing fleeting visual impressions.
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Impressionism
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What was most linked to labor reform?
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Unions
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Belief that one racial group is superior to another
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Racism
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The groups that grew faster during the 1800s?
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The Middle Class
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A way a organizing workers and machines in order to assemble a finished product efficiently
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Assembly line
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What was most highly regarded by the middle class during the 1800s?
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Respectability
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The idea that the finest would always beat out their competitors, whether in war or industry
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Social Darwinism
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How does Darwin's theory of evolution cause controversy?
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It disagrees with the biblical account of creation.
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The right to vote
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Suffrage
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What is an example of romantic painting?
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Landscape showing a violent storm
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British engineer who invented a process to produce steel
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Henery Bessemer
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A scientist whose work contrubuted to the increase life expectancy in the late 1800s?
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Joseph Lister
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French doctor who proved the "germ theory"
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Louis Pasteur
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The saying "a woman's place is in the home reflected the values of what group in the 1850?
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The middle class
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Romantic movement in art and literature was a reaction against...
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The Enlightenment
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Darwind challenged traditional beliefs by asserting that...
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All forms of life evolved over millions of years
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Why did the new features of the city life have the greatest impact on the poor during the 1800s?
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Sewage systems
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