Chapter 9 Life in the Industrial Revolution

Question 1

What postimpressionist painter used a style that looked like “primitive” folk art?

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Paul Gauguin

Question 2

Russia did not industrialize as soon as other countries because it lacked

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political stability.

Question 3

Japan lacked many basic resources, yet it industrialized rapidly after 1868 because

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Japanese political ldrs plcd a high priority on modernizing.

Question 4

The Bessemer process was a method for producing

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steel.

Question 5

Bedford College in England & Mount Holyoke in the U.S. were among the first colleges for

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women.

Question 6

invented the radio

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Guglielmo Marconi

Question 7

What movement argued that the use of alcohol harmed family life & reduced worker productivity?

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temperance

Question 8

Which of the following were writers of the realism movement?

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Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo

Question 9

a measure of the quality and availability of necessities and comforts in a society

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standard of living

Question 10

impressionist painter who relied on the viewer’s eye 2 blend brush strokes nto patches of color

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Claude Monet

Question 11

The popular saying “A man’s home is his castle” reflected what middle-class value?

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cult of domesticity

Question 12

What chemist developed a table that became the basis for the periodic table of elements?

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Dmitri Mendeleyev

Question 13

Who discovered that sterilizing with antiseptics would help prevent infection?

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Joseph Lister

Question 14

What theory applied the idea of natural selection to the development of business and society?

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Social Darwinism

Question 15

established a link between microbes and disease

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Louis Pasteur

Question 16

A production method where workers perform the same job in the manufacturing process is called

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the assembly line.

Question 17

rebuilding poor areas of a city

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urban renewal

Question 18

Englishman John Dalton made an important breakthrough in chemistry by showing that

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each element has its own kind of atoms.

Question 19

invented dynamite, a safer form of explosive than others at that time

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Alfred Nobel

Question 20

What contribution to medical science did German doctor Robert Koch make in the 1880s?

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He identified the bacteria that causes tuberculosis.

Question 21

The technology for America’s first textile factory came from

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Britain.

Question 22

The population of Europe exploded between 1800 and 1900 in large part because

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medical advances reduced the death rate.

Question 23

Today’s electric generators work on the same principle as the dynamo invented by

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Michael Faraday.

Question 24

romantic composer who took advantage of the broad range of instruments in the modern orchestra

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Question 25

What invention did the internal combustion engine make possible?

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the Wright Brothers’ flying machine

Question 26

What limited the effectiveness of women involved in the temperance movement?

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They could not vote and were barred from most schools.

Question 27

The purpose of Normal Schools was to train students to be

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teachers.

Question 28

shares of ownership in a corporation

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stock

Question 29

In the late 1800s, what did Charles Lyell accomplish?

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He was a pioneer in the new science of geology.

Question 30

advocated limiting or banning the use of alcoholic beverages

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temperance movement

Question 31

Romanticism can be described as a revolt against the Enlightenment’s emphasis on

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reason.

Question 32

reform movement concerned with voting rights

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women’s suffrage

Question 33

An artist who portrayed the harsh lives of slum dwellers was probably using what artistic styl?

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realism

Question 34

A company that sells ownership shares to many investors is a

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corporation.

Chapter 9 Life in the Industrial Revolution

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Chapter 9 Life in the Industrial Revolution

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