Reform & Rights
This movement pushed to limit or ban alcoholic beverages.
What is the temperance movement?
His theory of natural selection explained how species evolved.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This literary style focused on everyday life and ordinary subjects.
What is realism?
Factory workers formed these organizations to press for better wages, hours, and conditions, sometimes staging strikes to make their voices heard.
What are labor unions?
Owning a share of this means you actually own part of a company.
What is stock?
This activist helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention and was a leader in the women’s rights movement.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?)
This idea explained that microorganisms, not “bad air,” caused disease.
What is germ theory?
Though a creator of a famous Christmas tale, he wrote Oliver Twist and exposed social injustice through novels.
Who is Charles Dickens?
These crowded, often unsafe apartment buildings housed many working-class families in booming industrial cities.
What are tenements?
A business owned by many investors who buy stock is known by this term.
What is a corporation?
This is the term for the right of women to vote.
What is women’s suffrage? (Accept "suffrage")
He created vaccines for rabies and anthrax, supporting germ theory, and his last name inspired a term for sanitizing products like milk.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
This French painter shocked critics by insisting that “I cannot paint an angel, for I have never seen one” and by portraying humble workers and peasants, making him a founder of the Realist school.
Who is Gustave Courbet?
As people moved from the countryside into cities in the 1800s, this one-word term described the dramatic population shift.
What is urbanization?
This economic system envisioned by Karl Marx called for a classless society where the means of production are owned in common.
What is communism?
She was both an abolitionist and women’s rights activist who, after others claimed women needed to be "protected" from grubby politics, famously replied: "Nobody ever helps me into carriages,over mud puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?"
Who is Sojourner Truth?
Dear John? This scientist developed modern atomic theory.
Who is John Dalton?
This French author, known for championing justice and compassion, wrote about a wrongfully imprisoned man seeking redemption in Les Misérables and a hunchback who found sanctuary in a Paris cathedral.
Who is Victor Hugo?
This process transformed cities by tearing down slums and building boulevards, parks, and better housing.
What is urban renewal?
When rival companies secretly team up to fix prices and control markets, they form one of these.
What is a cartel?
This 19th-century idea claimed that a woman’s place was in the home, caring for family and household.
What is the cult of domesticity?
Not the inventor of a certain modern soft drink, this scientist identified the bacteria that cause tuberculosis.
Who is Robert Koch?
This English poet found beauty in the natural world, writing lines such as “It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,” which became a hallmark of the Romantic movement.
Who is William Wordsworth?
These groups, often organized by workers themselves, provided support like insurance for illness or help finding jobs.
What are mutual-aid societies?
This philosophy, promoted by thinkers like Jeremy Bentham, argued that laws should bring “the greatest happiness to the greatest number.”
What is utilitarianism?