ch 18 test people Flashcards

1
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led antislavery movement

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william wilberforce

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2
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wrote wealth of nations

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adam smith

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3
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bought 44 percent of the shares in the Suez Canal from the ruler of Egypt

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Benjamin Disraeli

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4
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set out to solve the irish question

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William Gladstone

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5
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a textile manufacturer, established a socialist community for his workers at his textile mill in Scotland

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Robert Owen

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6
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wrote the communist manifesto

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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

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7
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workers

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proletariat

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8
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middle-class property owners, capitalists, and industrialists or factory owners

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bourgeoisie

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9
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British socialists who sought to achieve a socialist society without revolution

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fabians

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10
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theological liberals who believed that Christianity and capitalism were incompatible

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Christian socialists

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11
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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

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Robert Raikes

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12
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founded best-known orphanages

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George Mueller

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13
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founded the Salvation Army

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William Booth

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14
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believed that conditions in society would improve only when those who lived in that society experienced true conversion

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Dwight L. Moody and ira sankey

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15
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tried to prove that organisms developed from simple to complex structures through natural causes

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Charles Darwin

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16
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applied evolutionary theory to humans.

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The Descent of Man

17
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proposed that each chemical element was composed of particles called atoms

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John Dalton

18
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organized the chemical elements in a chart according to their atomic masses

A

Dmitri Mendeleev

19
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accidently discovered x-rays while working with vacuum tubes.

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Wilhelm Roentgen

20
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found two new elements in a type of uranium ore called pitchblende

A

Pierre and Marie curie

21
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showed the relationship between matter and energy

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Albert Einstein

22
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a social critic who attacked injustice in society through his vivid portrayals of such places as industrial slums and debtors’ prisons

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Charles Dickens

23
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portrayed man as engaged in a hopeless struggle against impersonal forces beyond his control

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Thomas Hardy

24
Q

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

A

Samuel Clemens

25
Q

realistically described life in Russia
during the Napoleonic Wars

A

Leo Tolstoy

26
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The most famous of the French impressionists

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Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet