History Vocab Quiz Chapter 14 Flashcards
What is Socialism?
An economic system in which the government owns businesses.
What does Proletariat mean?
A communist term for laborers who rebel against the middle class and the bourgeoisie to make a classless society.
What is Bourgeoisie?
Capitalists.
What is Communism?
An economic system in which property is commonly and not privately owned.
What is Suffrage?
The privilege to vote in elections.
What does Temperance mean?
Drinking in moderation.
What is Abstinence?
No drinking of alcohol.
What is Chartism?
A movement in England in the 1800s that called for universal manhood suffrage and elections by secret ballot.
What is a Pogrom?
A sweeping targeted and repeated attack on Jews in Russia.
What is Romanticism?
A western style of art, music, and literature characterized by an emphasis on the mysterious and supernatural, a longing for the medieval age, and a love for freedom, nationalism, emotion, and nature.
What is Realism?
An art form that replaced romanticism and pictured everyday life in realistic detail.
What is Pasteurization?
A process developed by Louis Pasteur in which milk and other liquids are heated in order to slow the development of disease-causing microbes.
What is the Internal Combustion Engine?
An invention that produced power inside the engine.
What is a Telegraph?
Enabled people to write messages to others who lived far away.
What is a Telephone?
Enabled people to speak to others who lived far away.
Who is Karl Marx?
A student of philosophy and history who wrote the Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels.
Who is Benjamin Disraeli?
A British Prime Minister who supported a bill that doubled the number of men who could vote.
Who is William Gladstone?
Disraeli’s political opponent who stressed domestic reform during his terms as Prime Minister.
Who is Louis Napoleon Bonaparte?
Elected as president of the newly formed French Second Republic in 1848, he followed his uncle Napoleon Bonaparte’s example and declared himself president for life, giving himself the title of emperor in 1852.
Who is Charles Dickens?
An author who wrote about the negative aspects of the Industrial Revolution, including the slums where many workers lived.
Who is Leo Tolstoy?
An author who described the difficulties of life in Russia and wrote the novel ‘War and Peace.’
Who is James Maxwell?
A Scottish scientist who made major contributions to the fields of physics and astronomy.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
A French chemist who made many important discoveries that prevented several diseases.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Provided the foundation for evolutionary theory to explain the origins and changes of life, assuming a natural explanation for man’s origins.
Who are the Wright Brothers?
They made their first successful flight on December 17, 1903.
Who is Samuel Morse?
Patented the first known telegraph and developed the code to use with the telegraph machine.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
Patented the telephone.
