People
This American inventor illuminated entire cities with his invention of the first electric light bulb.
Thomas Edison
These American brothers realized the marvel of human flight when their flying machine took off in a field in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Using this method of production, workers were able to quickly create different products by adding parts to a product that moved along a belt from one work station to the next.
Assembly Line
This term refers to securing the right for all women to be able to vote.
Women's suffrage
A Charles Darwin theory, also known as "survival of the fittest", which states that natural forces select which plants and animals will survive based on their physical traits.
Natural selection
This American businessman perfected the assembly line in order to mass-produce cars.
Henry Ford
This French chemist invented a process called "pasteurization", which killed disease carrying microbes in milk.
Louis Pasteur
This is a name for large businesses that are owned by many investors who buy shares of stock in that company.
Corporations
The belief that one racial group is superior to another.
Racism
A British engineer developed this process to purify iron ore and produce a new, more durable substance called steel.
Bessemer Process
This British army nurse insisted on better hygiene in field hospitals. She also founded the world's first school of nursing.
Florence Nightingale
A German composer whose symphonies combined classical forms with the stirring range of sound favored by the romantics. Famously lost his hearing later in life.
Ludwig van Beethoven
A group of large corporations that would work together to control the price of certain products by ruthlessly destroying competing companies.
Cartel
An artistic movement that wanted to represent the world as it actually was, without the sentiment associated with romanticism.
Realism
This idea that women belonged in the home and should be the caregiver who provides a nest for her children and a peaceful refuge for her husband.
Cult of domesticity
Charles Dickens
This American novelist wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, which highlighted the lives of plantation slaves, which helped change the public perception of slavery in the United States.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
A movement brought about by the Protestant church that encouraged Christians to participate in social service.
Social gospel
An artistic movement that wanted to capture the first impression made by a scene or object on the viewer's eye.
Impressionism
Evangeline Booth was a Christian who helped bring the this non-profit service to the United States and Canada, which still exists today.
Salvation Army
This Boston dentist introduced anesthesia as to relieve pain during surgery, which allowed doctors to experiment with operations that had never before been possible.
William Morton
This Swedish chemist invented dynamite, which helped him amass a large fortune. He used this money to fund an award that is given out to people who make groundbreaking contributions to mankind.
Alfred Nobel
This artistic movement that pushed boundaries by implementing new verse forms, bold colors, or swelling sounds of the orchestra in order to create strong emotions for the person reading/watching/listening.
Romanticism
Painters that came after the impressionist movement, such as van Gogh, were referred to as this.
Post-impressionists
This Scottish-born American inventor patented the telephone in 1876.
Alexander Graham Bell