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Who invented wattage, horsepower, and the improved steam engine?
James Watt
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Thomas Edison best known for creating the...
Lightbulb!
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Karl Marx wrote what?
The Communist Manifesto
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Where did the industrial revolution begin? (what country)
Britain
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Postimpressionist painter who cut off his own ear?
Vincent van Gogh
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Creator of the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
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Henry Ford best known for creating cars through this process...
The Assembly Line
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Medical nurse who founded the world's first school of nursing?
Florence Nightingale
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What was electricity's effect on the world?
Led to newer inventions, more working time (at night), expanded business hours, energy prospects, and late night activities.
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The cult of domesticity said what?
That women should be "domesticated" and stay at home, take care of children, make dinner, do laundry, etc.
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Inventor of the radio?
Guglielmo Marconi
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Alfred Nobel invented...
Dynamite!
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Female African-American activist who pushed for women's suffrage?
Sojourner Truth
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What events led to the Industrial Revolution?
Previous revolutions economic supply and demand access to more natural resources.
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Woman's suffrage means what?
Women getting the right to vote!
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Primary impressionist, using visible brush strokes, and human's first perception of the scene.
Claude Monet
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Louis Daguerre invented the...
first CAMERA!
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The THEORY AND THE PERSON who demonstrated the links between microbes and diseases?
Germ Theory and Louis Pasteur
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What is the difference between Communism and Socialism?
Both similar, primary difference being that Communism involves having a classless society.
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Explain "standard of living" and "means of production."
Means of production = the industries necessary for the production of goods and services (farms, railways, etc). Standard of living = the items and lifestyles necessary for the comforts of society living.
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Invented steam-powered locomotives and the world's first major railroad from Liverpool to Manchester.
George Stephenson
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Michael Faraday created the?
Dynamo
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What did Jeremy Bentham do and was he for or against government intervention for the poor?
Advocated Utilitarianism, "the greatest happiness for the greatest number" and was FOR government intervention.
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Who was the creator of the idea that human population outpaces food supply AND was he for or against government intervention to help the poor?
Thomas Malthus and AGAINST government intervention for the poor.
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the idea that the goal of society should be "the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people."
Utilitarianism