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coach ed’s midterm
Question | Answer |
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Invented the radio | Guglielmo marconi |
Reform movement concerned with voting rights | Women’s suffrage |
discovered the link between microbes and diseases | Louis Pasteur |
A measure of the quality and availability of necessities and comfort in a society | Standards of living |
Invented dynamite, a safer form of explosive than others at the time. | Alfred Nobel |
Impressionist painter who relied on the viewers eye to blend brush strokes into patches of color | Claude Monet |
Romantic composer who was the first to take full advantage of the broad range of instruments in the modern orchestra | Ludwig van beethoven |
Shares of ownership in a corporate | Stock |
Advocated limiting or banning the use of alcoholic beverages | Temperance movement |
Rebuilding poor areas of a city | Urban renewal |
why did japan lack basic resources, yet it industrialized rapidly after 1868? | A political revolution that made modernization a priority |
Today’s electric generations work on the same time principle as the dynamo invented by who? | Michael faraday |
A production method in which workers repeatedly perform one task in the manufacturing process | Assembly line |
The population of Europe exploded between 100 and 1900 in large parts because... | Death rate fell |
the saying “A man’s home is his castle” reflected what middle class value of the late 1800’s? | The man is the head of the house |
The purpose of “normal schools” were to train students to be | better citizens |
Englishmen John dalton made an important breakthrough in chemistry by showing that | Each element has it own kind of atom |
What theory applied the idea of natural selection to development of business society? | Darwinism |
Romanticism can be described as a revolt against the enlightenment’s emphasis on | Imagination freedom |
An artist of the mid-1800’s who portrayed the harsh lives of slum dwellers was probably using what artistic style? | Realism |