ch 18 test people Flashcards
led antislavery movement
william wilberforce
wrote wealth of nations
adam smith
bought 44 percent of the shares in the Suez Canal from the ruler of Egypt
Benjamin Disraeli
set out to solve the irish question
William Gladstone
a textile manufacturer, established a socialist community for his workers at his textile mill in Scotland
Robert Owen
wrote the communist manifesto
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
workers
proletariat
middle-class property owners, capitalists, and industrialists or factory owners
bourgeoisie
British socialists who sought to achieve a socialist society without revolution
fabians
theological liberals who believed that Christianity and capitalism were incompatible
Christian socialists
sought to reach the poor, illiterate, working-class children, and he used Sunday schools to teach the children about Jesus in addition to reading and writing
Robert Raikes
founded best-known orphanages
George Mueller
founded the Salvation Army
William Booth
believed that conditions in society would improve only when those who lived in that society experienced true conversion
Dwight L. Moody and ira sankey
tried to prove that organisms developed from simple to complex structures through natural causes
Charles Darwin
applied evolutionary theory to humans.
The Descent of Man
proposed that each chemical element was composed of particles called atoms
John Dalton
organized the chemical elements in a chart according to their atomic masses
Dmitri Mendeleev
accidently discovered x-rays while working with vacuum tubes.
Wilhelm Roentgen
found two new elements in a type of uranium ore called pitchblende
Pierre and Marie curie
showed the relationship between matter and energy
Albert Einstein
a social critic who attacked injustice in society through his vivid portrayals of such places as industrial slums and debtors’ prisons
Charles Dickens
portrayed man as engaged in a hopeless struggle against impersonal forces beyond his control
Thomas Hardy
viewed
life as Hardy did; however, he used humor to
convey his ideas
Samuel Clemens
realistically described life in Russia
during the Napoleonic Wars
Leo Tolstoy
The most famous of the French impressionists
Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet