Chap 9

Question 1

Dynamo

Answer 1

a machine that generates electricity

Question 2

Interchangeable parts

Answer 2

identical components that could be used in place of another

Question 3

Assembly line

Answer 3

industrial production method that breaks down a complex job into a series of smaller task

Question 4

Stock

Answer 4

shares of their companies

Question 5

coporation

Answer 5

businesses that are owned by many investors who buy shares stock

Question 6

cartel

Answer 6

an association ti fix prices, sets production quota, or controls markets

Question 7

Germ theory

Answer 7

Idea that certain microbes might cause specific infectious diseases

Question 8

Urban Renewal

Answer 8

rebuilding of the poor of a city

Question 9

Mutual-aid society

Answer 9

self-help groups to aid the sick or injured workers

Question 10

Standard of living

Answer 10

measures the quality and availability of necessities and comforts in society

Question 11

Cult of domesticity

Answer 11

the idealized women and home

Question 12

Temperance movement

Answer 12

a campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages

Question 13

Womans suffrage

Answer 13

womens right to vote

Question 14

Racism

Answer 14

the belief that one racial group is superior to another

Question 15

Social gospel

Answer 15

a movement that urged Christians to social services

Question 16

Romanticism

Answer 16

nineteenth- century artistic movement that appealed to emotion rather then reason

Question 17

Realism

Answer 17

artistic movement to represent the world as it is

Question 18

Impressionism

Answer 18

school paintings of the late 1800 that captured fleeting visual impressions

Question 19

Atomic Theory

Answer 19

all matter is made atoms

Question 20

Natural Selection

Answer 20

Survival of the fittest

Question 21

Social Darwinism

Answer 21

Some thinkers used darwins ideas, applied to own ideas.

Question 22

Salvation Army

Answer 22

A organization that raised money for the poor