The American inventor who made the first electric light bulb
Who is Thomas Edison
100
The theory that infectious diseases are caused by certain microbes
What is germ theory
100
A campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages
What is temperance movement
100
An artistic style emphasizing imagination, freedom, and emotion
What is romanticism
100
Workers on this can add parts to a product that moves along a belt from one work station to the next
What is an assembly line
200
Allowed workers to send and receive messages faster than the telegraph
What is the telephone
200
Measures the quality and availabilty of necessities and comforts in a society.
What is the standard of living
200
Women were too emotional to be allowed to vote. Others argued that women needed to be protected from politics or that a women's place was in the home.
What are arguments against women's suffrage
200
An artistic movement whose aim was to represent the world as it is
What is realism
200
Manufacturers designed products with identical components that could be used in a place of one another
What is interchangeable parts
300
Enabled workers to type information faster than they could write it by hand
What is a typewriter
300
Rebuilding of the poor areas of a city, took place in Paris in the 1850s
What is urban renewal
300
The unscientific belief that one racial group is superior to another
What is racism
300
school of painting of the late 1800s and early 1900s that tried to capture fleeting visual impressions
What is impressionism
300
Movement of the 1800s that urged Christians to do social service.
What is social gospel
400
This American started making automobiles that reached the breathtaking speed of 25 mph
Who is Henry Ford
400
Better hygiene helped decrease the rate of disease. Along with surgeons sterilizing their instruments and washing their hands before operating
What are factors that caused population rates to soar
400
Women's right to vote
What is women's suffrage
400
a German composer that combined classical forms with range of sounds
Who is Ludwig Van Beethoven
400
Shares of a company
What is a stock
500
Built a standard oil company into an empire. By gaining control of oil wells, oil refineries, and oil pipelines, he dominated the American petroleum industry.
Who is John D. Rockefeller
500
Discovered a process called pasteurization that killed disease carrying microbes in milk
Who is Louis Pasteur
500
Published "On the Origin of Species"
Who is Charles Darwin
500
The English novelist who vividly portrayed the lives of slum dwellers and factory workers, including children.
Who is Charles Dickens
500
Businesses that are owned by many investors who buy shares of stock