Ch. 19 Rapid Industrialization and its Challenges

Question 1

Belle Epoque

Answer 1

Period of time extending from the late 19th century to WWI, that witnessed great peace, prosperity, and scientific/artistic progress between France and her Western neighbors. French for “The Beautiful Age” or “Good old days”

Question 2

Henry Bessemer

Answer 2

Englishman who developed a new method for forging steel

• less expensive
• stronger, flexible, durable

Question 3

Thomas Edison

Answer 3

invented the incandescent lightbulb

Question 4

Louis Pasteur

Answer 4

Decided the diseases and sickness were caused by germs
-germ theory 1860s
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Question 5

Paris Metor

Answer 5

1890- Paris’s first subway!

-connected cities to suburban areas

Question 6

Alexander Graham Bell

Answer 6

1876- invented the telephone!

Question 7

Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin

Answer 7

built his own airship (blimp)

Question 8

Marie Curie

Answer 8

isolated radium (radiation stuff)
-won 2 nobel prizes

Question 9

Albert Einstein

Answer 9

Theory of relativity E=MC2

Question 10

Social Changes

Answer 10

• factories
• woman workers
• “pride in work”
• more jobs

Question 11

Bon Marche

Answer 11

A department store in Paris that contained a vast selection of goods

Question 12

Olympics

Answer 12

1896, first modern Olympics in Athens

Question 13

Boy Scouts

Answer 13

founded 1908 in England