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Who developed a new, fast way to send long-distance messages?

Samuel Morse

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What provided power for trains and boats?

Steam engine

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How did electric power impact the industry?

It allowed factories to move away from water sources

100

Who was the physiologist that proved dogs could be conditioned to have certain reflex actions?

Ivan Pavlov

100

What is another term for country/ living in the farmland?

Rural

200

Who invented the first usable, practical light bulb?

Thomas Edison

200

What reduced pain caused by surgical procedures?

Anesthetics
200

How did the Model T differ from earlier automobile models?

It was affordable

200

Who was the doctor that introduced the concept of the unconscious mind / developed psychoanalysis (DREAMS)?

Sigmund Freud

200

What is another term for living in the city?

Urban

300

What is a series of long and short signals representing letters and numbers?

Morse Code

300

What is the arrangement that revealed previously unknown patterns among the elements?

Periodic Table

300

What development was essential (needed) to the expansion of cities to the suburbs?

the emergence of public transportation systems

300

Who were the french chemists that discovered radioactivity?

Marie and Pierre Curie

300

What is another term for towns/ living outside the city?

Suburban/ Suburbs

400

Who were first to succeed in flying a powered airplane in sustained flight?

Wilbur and Orville Wright

400

What destroys the bacteria that cause disease in milk, cheese, and juice?

Pasteurization

400

Which of the following was a solution to scarce living and working space in cities?

the construction of skyscrapers

400

Who was the scientist that developed the theory of natural selection?

Charles Darwin

400

What is the growth of people living in towns and cities?

Urbanization

500

Who developed vaccines for anthrax and rabies?

Louis Pasteur

500

What is the steel-making process made steel stronger & cheaper?

Bessemer Process

500

What caused the growth in leisure time activities in the late 1800s?

the move from cities to suburbs

500

Who was the inventor of the telephone?

Alexander Graham Bell

500

The increasingly educated population, explosion of newspapers, and the telegraph made a career in which of the following possible in the late 1880s?

Journalism

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