Ch 21 Test Flashcards
Alfred Nobel
Invented dynamite
Urban renewal
Rebuilding of the poor areas of a city
Claude monet
Brushed strokes of color side by side without any bleeding
Louis Pasteur
Clearly showed the link between microbes and disease
Ludwig van Beethoven
Combined classical forms with a stirring range of sound
Guglielmo Marconi
Invented the radio
Women’s suffrage
Women’s right to vote
Stock
Shares in a company
Standard of living
Measures the quality and availability of necessities and comforts in a society
What helped japan industrialize so rapidly after 1868
A political revolution that made modernization a priority
Thomas Edison
Made the first electric lightbulb
Benjamin Franklin
Tinkered with electricity
Michael faraday
Created the first simple electric motor and the first dynamo
Bessemer process
Make steel from iron. Steel was lighter, harder, and more durable than iron
Assembly line
Production method that breaks down a complex job into series of smaller tasks
Interchangeable parts
Identical components that could be used in place of one another
Purpose of normal schools
Where “norms and standards” of educational practices were taught
John dalton
Atomic theory
Social Darwinism
The idea of survival of the fittest applied to war and economic competition
Social gospel
A movement that urged Christians to social service
Romanticism
An artistic style emphasizing imagination, freedom, and emotion
Realism
An artistic movement whose aim was to represent the world as it is
Impressionism
School of painting of the late 1800s and early 1900s that tried to capture fleeting visual impressions
Why did Russia fall behind
Social and political conditions slowed its economic development
Where did America get it’s first textile machines
Britain
What made skyscrapers possible
Elevators, steel
What inventions made airplanes and steamboats possible
Internal combustion engine
Corporation
Business that is owned by many investors who buy shares of stock
Robert Koch
Identified the bacterium that caused tuberculosis
Temperance movement
A campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages
Prohibition
The banning of alcohol
Bedford college and mount Holyoke
Colleges for women opened by 1840s
Who invented the periodic table
Dmitri mendeleyev
Realism writers
Henrik Ibsen, victor Hugo
Which post impressionist painter had a style that looked like primitive folk art
Paul Gauguin
Mathew Brady
Preserved a vivid, realistic record of the corpse-strewn battlefields
Charles Lyell
Offered evidence to show that earth had formed over millions of years ago In “the principles of geology”
