Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

Hisotry > Chpt 9 Industrial age > Flashcards

Chpt 9 Industrial age Flashcards

1
Q

Who led Europe in industry?

A

Germany

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Who became the world’s leading industrial power?

A

The US

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Who patented a new process for making steel from iron?

A

Henry Bessemer

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Who invented dynamite?

A

Alfred Nobel

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Who created the first electric motor and the new dynamo (dynamite?)

A

Micheal Faraday

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Who developed the light bulb?

A

Thomas Edison

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

What did assembly lines do?

A

They divided labor and made production faster and cheaper

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Who used the assembly line to mass-produce

A

American, Henry Ford

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

When was the first airplane flown and who designed it

A

Orville and Wilbur Wright, 1903

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

What did Samuel B. Morse develop?

A

The Telegraph

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Who invented the radio?

A

Italian, Guglielmo Marconi

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

Reformers called for what to prevent monopolies

A

Laws

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

True or False, Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company was a monopoly

A

True

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Who proved the germ theory by showing the link between microbes and disease?

A

Louis Pasteur

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

Who identified the bacterium that caused tuberculosis?

A

Robert Roch

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

The poor died from what after surgery

A

infection

17
Q

Who insisted on better hospital sanitation?

A

Florence Nightingale

18
Q

Who urged surgeons to sterilize medical instruments?

A

Joseph Lister

19
Q

Who destroyed medieval streets to build wide boulevards, contributing to the urban renewal of Paris?

A

George Haussman

20
Q

Who designed the first skyscraper?

A

American, Louis Sullivan

21
Q

What class earned the right to organize and use strikes to demand better working conditions?

A

The working class

22
Q

upper class

A

rich business families with noble titles

23
Q

growing middle class

A

doctors/ scientist

24
Q

lower middle class

A

teachers/ office

25
Q

What did the cult of domesticity do?

A

Idealized women and the home

26
Q

Some women joined what movement to ban the use of alcohol

A

temperance

27
Q

Santon, Anthiny, and Truth crusaded against what, and promoted what?

A

Crusaded against slavery and promoted women’s suffering

28
Q

Who showed how atoms combine to make chemical substances

A

John Dalton

29
Q

Geologists offered evidence to show that what?

A

the earth formed over millions of years

30
Q

Who argued that all forms of life evolved over millions of years

A

Charles Darwin

31
Q

Who wrote of mysterious, melancholy figures with guilty paths?

A

Lord Byron, and others

31
Q

What argues that industrial tycoons were more fit, and contributed to racism

A

Social Darwinism

32
Q

Victor Hugo wrote?

A

The hunchback of notre dame

33
Q

Who combined classical forms with a stirring range of sound?

A

Ludwig van Beethoven

34
Q

Charles Dickens’s Oliver twist portrayed what?

A

a child’s life in the slums

35
Q

who produced successful photographs?

A

Louis Daguerre

36
Q

Who experimented with sharp bursts of line and bright colors while painting?

A

Vincent Van Gogh

Hisotry (6 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2024 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions