Life in the Industrial Age Flashcards
Guglielmo Marconi
Definition: Invented the radio
Significance: Would be used to communicate messages using Morse code
Internal-Combustion Engine
Significance: The Internal-Combustion Engine powered cars, plans, and even motorized reapers, therefore, boosting farm production.
Marxists
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Romanticsim
Definition: 19th-century artistic movement that appealed to emotion rather than reason
Significance: Emphasized imagination, freedom, and emotion
The works of Romantic writers included intense feelings, and glorification of nature
Realpolitik
Definition: Realistic politics based on the needs of the state
Significance: Power was more important than principles
Crimean War
Definition: War fought mainly on the Crimean Peninsula between the Russians and the British, French, and Turks
Significance: The Crimean War broke out when Russia attempted to seize Ottoman lands along the Danube River;in response, Britain and France stepped in to help the Ottoman Turks, invading the Crimean peninsula that juts into the Black Sea
Charles Dickens
An English realist, who vividly portrayed the lives of factory workers and slum dwellers.
Wrote Oliver Twist: Story of a young boy requesting to ask food in an orphanage in response Oliver is smacked in the head and then sent away to work
Shocked the crowd with a picture of the poverty and mistreatment of children
Charles Darwin
Definition: British naturalist
Significance: Published “On the Origin of Species;” Where he argued that all forms of life has slowly evolved in time
Natural forces “selected” those with physical traits best adapted to their environment to survive, this process of natural selection is known as “survival of the fittest.”
Social Darwinism [Significance]
Social Darwinism encouraged racism and made races believe that they are superior to others.
Sigmund Freud
Definition: Austrian physician
Significance: Pioneered psychoanalysis
- A method of studying how the mind works and treating mental disorders
Emmeline Pankhurst
Definition: A woman who protested the right of suffrage to Woman
Radium
Definition: The discovery of certain elements, such as radium and uranium, releasing charged particles were discovered by a scientist named Marie Curie
Significance: These findings proved that atoms are not solid and indivisible
Post-Impressionists
Definition: Painters that tried to capture fleeting visual impressions
Significance: Concentrated on visual impressions rather than realism
For Example
Monet painted the cathedral at Rouen a dozen times from the same angle to capture how differently it looks at different times of the day.
