World history ch. 21 Answers – Flashcards
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Japan lacked many basic resources, yet it industrialized rapidly after 1868 because
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Of a political revolution that made modernization a priority
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Today's electric generators work on the same principle as the Dynamo invented by
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Michael faraday
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A production method in which workers repeatedly perform one task in the manufacturing process is called
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Assembly line
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Russia did not industrialized as soon as other countries because it lacked
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Political conditions
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The technology for Americas first textile factory came from
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Britain
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The Bessemer process was a method for producing
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Steel
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What invention did the internal combustion engine make possible
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Right brothers flying machines
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A company that sells ownership shares to many investors is a
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Corporation
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The population of Europe exploded between 1800 and 1900 In large part because
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The death rate fell
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What contribution to medical science did German Doctor Robert Koch make in the 1880's
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He identified the bacterium that caused tuberculosis
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Who discovered that sterilizing surgical instruments with antiseptics would help prevent infection
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Joseph Lister
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The popular saying "A man's home is his castle" reflected what middle-class value of the late 1800's
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Cult of domesticity
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The purpose of normal schools was to train students to be
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Teachers
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Englishman John Dalton made an important breakthrough in chemistry by showing that
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Each element has its own kind of atoms
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What theory applies the idea of natural selection to the development of business and society
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Social Darwinism
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What limited the effectiveness of women involved in the temperance movement
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Women couldn't vote and were barred from Most schools
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Reformers in what movement argued that the use of alcoholic beverages harmed family life and reduced worker productivity
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Temperance movement
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Bedford college in England and mount Holyoke in the United States were among the first college for
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Women
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In 1869, what chemist developed a table that became the basis for the periodic table of elements used today
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Dmitri Mendeleev
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In the late 1800's what did Charles Lyell accomplish
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Showed that Earth was formed over millions of years ago
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Romanticism can be described as a revolt against the enlightenment's emphasis on
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Reason
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An artist of the mid-1800's who portrayed the harsh lives of slum dwellers was probably using what artistic style
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Realism
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Which of the following were writers of the realism movement
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Charles dickens and victor Hugo
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What postimpressionist painter used a style that looked like "primitive" folk art
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Paul Gauguin
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What did Mathew B. Brady accomplish in the visual arts
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He took realistic pictures of the civil war
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Established a link between microbes and disease
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Louis Pasteur
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Invented the radio
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Guglielimo Marconi
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Reform movement concerned with voting rights
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Women's suffrage
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A measure of the quality and availability of necessities and comforts in society
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Standard of living
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Invented dynamite, a safer form of explosive than others at that time
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Alfred Nobel
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Impressionist painter who relied on the viewers eye to blend brush strokes into patches of color
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Claude Monet
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Romantic composer who was the first to take full advantage of the broad range of instruments in the modern orchestra
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
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Shares of ownership in a corporation
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Stock
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Advocated limiting or banning the use of alcoholic beverages
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Temperance movement
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Rebuilding poor areas of a city
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Urban renewal
