WH Topic 7 Lesson 1-4 Vocabulary

Question 1

American inventor of the flying machine or airplane.

Accepted Answer

The Wright Brothers

Question 2

Scottish surgeon, Father of Antiseptic Surgery, recognized the lack of cleanliness in hospitals

Accepted Answer

Joseph Lister

Question 3

English poet who was instrumental in launching Romanticism.

Accepted Answer

William Wordsworth

Question 4

English naturalist who developed the theory of evolution through process of natural selection.

Accepted Answer

Charles Darwin

Question 5

Period beginning in 1700 when production switched from handtools to machinery.

Accepted Answer

Industrial Revolution

Question 6

Idea that goal of society should be to bring greatest happiness for greatest number of people.

Accepted Answer

utilitarianism

Question 7

Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer, business and author who invented dynamite and peace prize.

Accepted Answer

Alfred Nobel

Question 8

German physician who was one of the founders of bacteriology.

Accepted Answer

Robert Koch

Question 9

German political thinker whose ideas became the foundation for communism.

Accepted Answer

Karl Marx

Question 10

French chemist who was one of the founders of microbiology and pasteurization .

Accepted Answer

Louis Pasteur

Question 11

English physicist and chemist who developed the Atomic Theory.

Accepted Answer

John Dalton

Question 12

British engineer and inventor who created the process for high quality steel.

Accepted Answer

Henry Bessemer

Question 13

Impressionist artist produced more than 2000 drawings, sketches & paintings; A Starry Night

Accepted Answer

Vincent van Gogh

Question 14

British chemist and inventor who created a simple motor that produced electricity.

Accepted Answer

Michael Farraday

Question 15

System in which the people as a whole would own all property and operate all businesses.

Accepted Answer

socialism

Question 16

German composer wrote symphonies, concertos, sonatas including his famous 5th Symphony.

Accepted Answer

Ludwig van Beethoven

Question 17

French painter of the Realist movement.

Accepted Answer

Gustave Courbet

Question 18

French painter and physicist who invented photography.

Accepted Answer

Louis Daguerre

Question 19

Money or wealth used to invest in buisness or enterprise.

Accepted Answer

capital

Question 20

Frenchman literary, intellectual and political whose works include Les Miserables & Notre Dame.

Accepted Answer

Victor Hugo

Question 21

Man who set up model community in Scotland based on Utopianism.

Accepted Answer

Robert Owen

Question 22

Scottish born inventor of the telephone.

Accepted Answer

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 23

British economist who wrote an essay entitled "Principle of Population.

Accepted Answer

John Malthus

Question 24

Scottish inventor of the steam engine.

Accepted Answer

James Watt

Question 25

A leading figure of the French Impressionist movement with painting such as Impression; Sunrise

Accepted Answer

Claude Monet

Question 26

American painter and inventor of the telegraph.

Accepted Answer

Samuel F.B. Morse

Question 27

African American who was a slave that fought for many reforms including racial equality.

Accepted Answer

Sojourner Truth

Question 28

English author of such works as a Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol.

Accepted Answer

Charles Dickens

Question 29

British philosopher and economist who advocated for utilitarianism.

Accepted Answer

Jeremy Bentham

Question 30

American author, lecturer and activist who played a major role in the women's rights movement

Accepted Answer

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Question 31

Someone who takes a financial risk in order to start a business.

Accepted Answer

entrepreneur

Question 32

American inventor of the cotton gin.

Accepted Answer

Eli Whitney

Question 33

British nurse who fought for improved sanitation and care for wounded and those in hospitals.

Accepted Answer

Florence Nigthingale

Question 34

American inventor of 1,093 inventions which include the light bulb.

Accepted Answer

Thomas Edison

Question 35

English romantic poet who was a political and social satirist.

Accepted Answer

Lord Byron

Question 36

Italian inventor of the telegraph and radio.

Accepted Answer

Guglielmo Marconi

Question 37

Idea of classless society where all wealth/property would be owned by the community as a whole

Accepted Answer

communism

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