Chapter 6~ Life In The Industrial Age Flashcards
English chemist who created the first simple electric motor and dynamo
Michael Faraday
Machine for generating electricity
Dyanamo
American inventor who made light bulb
Thomas Edision
Identical components for using in place of one another
Interchangeable parts
Workers add parts to a product that moves on a belt
Assembly line
Americans who designed the first airplane
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Italian pioneer, radio
Guglielmo Marconi
Sold by owners to investors for capital
Stock
Businesses owned by many investors who buy shares of stock
Corporations
Group of cooperations who join forces to fix prices, set production quotes, or control markets
Cartel
Certain microbes might cause infectious diseases
Germ theory
Showed link between microbes and disease
Louis Pasteur
German doctor who identified the bacteria that causes turberculosis
Robert Koch
Army nurse that insisted on better hygiene in field hospitals
Florence Nightingale
Surgeon who discovered how antiseptics prevented infection
Joseph Lister
Rebuilding of the poor areas of a city
Urban renewal
Self help groups of workers to aid the sick an injured workers
Mutual aid societies
Measures quality and availability of necessities and comforts in a society
Standard of living
Idealized women in home
Cult of domesticity
Supported by women’s groups, campaign to limit or ban alcohol
Temperance movement
Crusaded against slavery then organized movement for women’s rights
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women’s right to vote
Women’s sufferage
African American suffragist
Sojourner Truth
English Quaker schoolteacher, developed modern atomic theory
John dalton
British naturalist who argue that all forms of life evolved, theory of natural selection
Charles Darwin
Belief that one group is better than another
Racism
Backed by Protestant churches, movement that urged Christians to social service
Social gospel
Part of romanticism
William Wordsworth and William Blake
Artistic style emphasizing imagination, freedom, and emotion
Romanticism
Wrote poetry created bryonic heroes, moody isolated romantic heroes
Lord Bryon
Writer who recreated France’s history with Alexandre Dames, wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Three Musketeers
Victor Hugo
German composer who combined classical forms with a stirring range of sound
Ludwig van Beethoven
Artistic movement, represent world as it is, focus on harsh side of cities and villages
Realism
English novelist who protracted slums and factory workers, wrote Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
French realist, painter, painted The Stone Breakers
Gustavo Courbert
Improved technology to make photographs
Louis Daguerre
First fleeting impression made by scene or object, started in Paris
Impressionism
Impressionist, didn’t blend strokes of color
Claude Monet
Painter who experimented with sharp brush strokes and color, painting were dreamlike
Vincent Van Gogh
Swedish chemist who invented dynamite
Alfred Nobel