Life in the Industrial Age

This Act was passed to prohibit monopolies

identical components that could be used in place of one another in manufacturing

The change from steam-powered industry to electric-powered industry resulted from the work of

a Swedish chemist who invented dynamite in 1866

An attempt to represent the world as it was, without the sentiment associated with romanticism

Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and Nikola Tesla all worked wonders with

This emerged to encourage women to stay at home

Romanticism or Realism

Orvil and Wilbur Wright were famous for

business owned by many investors who buy shares of stock & risk only their investment

A postimpressionist painter who experimented with sharp lines and bright colors

Nikolaus Otto was credited for creating

Without the Bessemer process, Americans might not have been able to create

The idea that each kind of plant and animal had evolved over a long period of time

a nurse who introduced sanitation in hospitals and founded the world’s first school of nursing

An English novelist who portrayed the lives of slum dwellers and factory workers in his books

a campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages

Which of the following revolutionized American communications in the late 1800s?

A group of companies that is controlled by a single group of business leaders is an example of

Working conditions during the late 1800s were characterized by

wrote On the Origin of Species, arguing the idea of natural selection and organic evolution.

shares of a company would be called ______

Passed by Congress in order to protect by making foreign goods more expensive

chemist who showed the link between microbes & disease and vaccines against rabies & anthrax

a British engineer who developed a new process for making steel from iron in 1856

A romantic German composer whose music combined classical forms with a stirring range of sound

What characteristic of the Industrial Revolution contributed to the rise of labor unions

women’s right to vote

Romanticism or Realism

Henry Ford can be credited for ________

Which of the following statements accurately reflects the reason for the growth of labor unions

19th-century artistic movement that appealed to emotion rather than reason

Which of the following made possible the American industrial growth of the late 1800s?

in 1769 he developed a cure for small pox

One of Thomas Edison’s major accomplishments was

The laissez faire economic philosophy promoted by the United States resulted in

production method that breaks down a complex job into a series of smaller tasks