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People and Terms
Medicine
City Life Changes
Working Class Advances
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What is a mutual-aid society?
A self help group to aid sick or injured workers.
100
What is the germ theory.
The idea that specific microbes might cause certain infectious diseases.
100
Before urban renewal sometimes whole families were jammed into small living quarters called what?
Tenemets
100
What was the main tactic of labor unions to get their point across.
Strikes
200
What does the standard of living measure?
It measures the quality and availability of necessities and comforts in life.
200
What are two diseases that Louis Pasteur developed vaccines for?l
Anthrax and rabies.
200
The sudden increase in industry lead to what? (Two things)
Increase in jobs, higher population in the city, rise of urban working class, factories.
200
True or false: Women were payed equally to men
False, they were usually payed half or less than half of a man's salary.
300
What is urban renewal?
It is the rebuilding of the poor areas of a city.
300
Robert Koch identified the bacterium that caused what?
Tuberculosis.
300
Due to the increased population and crime these two public service departments also increased and improved.
The Police and Fire Department.
300
A new class of people developed and lived comfortably in suburbs. This group was the...
Middle Class
400
Who is the French chemist who clearly showed the link between microbes and disease.
Louis Pastuer
400
Who discovered how antiseptics prevented infection.
Joseph Lister
400
Due to new inventions at the time the traditional gas lanterns were replaced by these.
Electric Street Lamps
400
Pressured unions, governments passed laws and regulations. Name two such regulations.
Forbade the employment of children below the age of ten, and banned the employment of women in mines.
500
Who is Florence Nightengale and what is 1 thing that she did.
British nurse who insisted on better hygiene in hospitals. Also founded world's first school of nursing.
500
What was first used to relieve pain in early 1840s. It allowed doctors to experiment with operations that had never before been possible.
Anesthia
500
This made it possible to live in one part of the city and work in another.
Trolly lines
500
What did the workers form as a result of the exploitation they were experiencing?
Labor Unions