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Life in the Industrail Age Flashcards

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Dynamo

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machine that generates electricity

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Interchangeable parts

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identical components that can be used in place or another one

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Stock

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shares in companies

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Cartel

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association to set prices

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Germ theory

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link between microbes and disease

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Urban Renewal

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rebuilding of the poorareas of a city

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Mutual-aid living

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self-help groups to aid sick or injured workers

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Cult of domesticity

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idealized women and the home

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Temperance movement

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campaingn to limit or banthe use of alcoholic beverages

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Women’s suffrage

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womans right to vote

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Racism

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bellet that one racial group is superior to another

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Social gospel

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movement that urged Christians to social service

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Romanticism

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words worth was part of a cultural movement

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Realism

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new artistic movement

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Impressionism

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photography in paris

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Bessemer process

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purity iron ore

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Atomic Theory

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everything is made of atoms

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Natural Selection

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survival of the fittest

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Social Darwinism

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rasicism

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Salvation Army

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collects money for the army

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assembly line

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added parts along the belt

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corporation

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businesses that are owned by many investors who buy shares of stock

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Standard of living

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quality and availability of necessities and comforts in a society

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Alfred Nobel

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created the noble prize

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Michael Faraday

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created first simple electric motor and dynamo

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Henery Ford

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assembly line

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Orville/Wulbur Wright

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airplanes

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What are three technological advances that helped industy grow?

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  1. Steel: lighter and harder than iron
  2. Chemicals: medicines, soaps and perfumes
  3. Electricity: the lightbulb and power to factories
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Define the term corporation and explain the connection between technology and the growth of these new ways of doing business

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  • Corporation: businesses that are owned by many investors who buy shares and stock
  • were able to make more factories and more products with technology so they earned more money.
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Louis Pasteur

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clearly linked microbes and disease

  • developed vaccines against rabbies and anthrax
  • discovery of pasteuraization
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Robert Koch

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identified bacteria that caused tuberculosis

  • lower death rates
  • people bathed and cleaned themselves more
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Florence Nightingale

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insisted on better hygiene in the field hospitals

-founded first school of nursing

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Joseph Lister

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discovered how antiseptics prevented infection

  • got surgens to wash their hads before operating
  • drasticly reduced deaths from infection
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Three ways the lives of workers who lived in cities changed during the later Industrial Revolution

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  1. Landscape: factories were easy to walk to
  2. Sidewalks, Sewers and Skyscrapers: More thing to build and more homes to make for neighborhoods.
  3. Lure of the City: provided multiple jobs for everyones needs
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compare the responses of realist and romantic artist to the industrial world.

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Realist:
-realistic view of life
-extreme
Romantic:
-ideal view of life
-simple
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Explain how Social Darwinism encouraged racism.

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it claimed that the succes of western civilization was due to the supremacy of the white race.

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During the period of industrialization the economy shifted from agricultural to industrial. How did this change affect the social order?

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  1. farmers moved to the city to work in factories
  2. large capital was made
  3. Safer surroundings were made
    - so social order turned to be good.

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