Ch 21 Test

Question 0

Alfred Nobel

Answer 0

Invented dynamite

Question 1

Urban renewal

Answer 1

Rebuilding of the poor areas of a city

Question 2

Claude monet

Answer 2

Brushed strokes of color side by side without any bleeding

Question 3

Louis Pasteur

Answer 3

Clearly showed the link between microbes and disease

Question 4

Ludwig van Beethoven

Answer 4

Combined classical forms with a stirring range of sound

Question 5

Guglielmo Marconi

Answer 5

Invented the radio

Question 6

Women’s suffrage

Answer 6

Women’s right to vote

Question 7

Stock

Answer 7

Shares in a company

Question 8

Standard of living

Answer 8

Measures the quality and availability of necessities and comforts in a society

Question 9

What helped japan industrialize so rapidly after 1868

Answer 9

A political revolution that made modernization a priority

Question 10

Thomas Edison

Answer 10

Made the first electric lightbulb

Question 11

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 11

Tinkered with electricity

Question 12

Michael faraday

Answer 12

Created the first simple electric motor and the first dynamo

Question 13

Bessemer process

Answer 13

Make steel from iron. Steel was lighter, harder, and more durable than iron

Question 14

Assembly line

Answer 14

Production method that breaks down a complex job into series of smaller tasks

Question 15

Interchangeable parts

Answer 15

Identical components that could be used in place of one another

Question 16

Purpose of normal schools

Answer 16

Where “norms and standards” of educational practices were taught

Question 17

John dalton

Answer 17

Atomic theory

Question 18

Social Darwinism

Answer 18

The idea of survival of the fittest applied to war and economic competition

Question 19

Social gospel

Answer 19

A movement that urged Christians to social service

Question 20

Romanticism

Answer 20

An artistic style emphasizing imagination, freedom, and emotion

Question 21

Realism

Answer 21

An artistic movement whose aim was to represent the world as it is

Question 22

Impressionism

Answer 22

School of painting of the late 1800s and early 1900s that tried to capture fleeting visual impressions

Question 23

Why did Russia fall behind

Answer 23

Social and political conditions slowed its economic development

Question 24

Where did America get it’s first textile machines

Answer 24

Britain

Question 25

What made skyscrapers possible

Answer 25

Elevators, steel

Question 26

What inventions made airplanes and steamboats possible

Answer 26

Internal combustion engine

Question 27

Corporation

Answer 27

Business that is owned by many investors who buy shares of stock

Question 28

Robert Koch

Answer 28

Identified the bacterium that caused tuberculosis

Question 29

Temperance movement

Answer 29

A campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages

Question 30

Prohibition

Answer 30

The banning of alcohol

Question 31

Bedford college and mount Holyoke

Answer 31

Colleges for women opened by 1840s

Question 32

Who invented the periodic table

Answer 32

Dmitri mendeleyev

Question 33

Realism writers

Answer 33

Henrik Ibsen, victor Hugo

Question 34

Which post impressionist painter had a style that looked like primitive folk art

Answer 34

Paul Gauguin

Question 35

Mathew Brady

Answer 35

Preserved a vivid, realistic record of the corpse-strewn battlefields

Question 36

Charles Lyell

Answer 36

Offered evidence to show that earth had formed over millions of years ago In “the principles of geology”