ch 18 test people

Question 1

led antislavery movement

Answer 1

william wilberforce

Question 2

wrote wealth of nations

Answer 2

adam smith

Question 3

bought 44 percent of the shares in the Suez Canal from the ruler of Egypt

Answer 3

Benjamin Disraeli

Question 4

set out to solve the irish question

Answer 4

William Gladstone

Question 5

a textile manufacturer, established a socialist community for his workers at his textile mill in Scotland

Answer 5

Robert Owen

Question 6

wrote the communist manifesto

Answer 6

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Question 7

workers

Answer 7

proletariat

Question 8

middle-class property owners, capitalists, and industrialists or factory owners

Answer 8

bourgeoisie

Question 9

British socialists who sought to achieve a socialist society without revolution

Answer 9

fabians

Question 10

theological liberals who believed that Christianity and capitalism were incompatible

Answer 10

Christian socialists

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Robert Raikes

Question 12

founded best-known orphanages

Answer 12

George Mueller

Question 13

founded the Salvation Army

Answer 13

William Booth

Question 14

believed that conditions in society would improve only when those who lived in that society experienced true conversion

Answer 14

Dwight L. Moody and ira sankey

Question 15

tried to prove that organisms developed from simple to complex structures through natural causes

Answer 15

Charles Darwin

Question 16

applied evolutionary theory to humans.

Answer 16

The Descent of Man

Question 17

proposed that each chemical element was composed of particles called atoms

Answer 17

John Dalton

Question 18

organized the chemical elements in a chart according to their atomic masses

Answer 18

Dmitri Mendeleev

Question 19

accidently discovered x-rays while working with vacuum tubes.

Answer 19

Wilhelm Roentgen

Question 20

found two new elements in a type of uranium ore called pitchblende

Answer 20

Pierre and Marie curie

Question 21

showed the relationship between matter and energy

Answer 21

Albert Einstein

Question 22

a social critic who attacked injustice in society through his vivid portrayals of such places as industrial slums and debtors’ prisons

Answer 22

Charles Dickens

Question 23

portrayed man as engaged in a hopeless struggle against impersonal forces beyond his control

Answer 23

Thomas Hardy

Question 24

viewed
life as Hardy did; however, he used humor to
convey his ideas

Answer 24

Samuel Clemens

Question 25

realistically described life in Russia during the Napoleonic Wars

Answer 25

Leo Tolstoy

Question 26

The most famous of the French impressionists

Answer 26

Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet