19th Century Industry
In the mid-1700s, James Watt invented this which became the primary power source for the first textile factories and made it easier to mine coal.
What is the steam engine?
In 1879, this Scottish native invented the first practical telephone and was famous for greeting callers with the phrase, "Ahoy! Ahoy!"
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
Starting in the late 1800s, workers started to form these in order to achieve fair pay, an 8-hour work day, and job security, among other things.
What is a unions?
The belief that people’s greatest loyalty should be to a nation of those who share common culture and history, or this.
What is nationalism?
This artistic and intellectual movement valued human emotions, instincts, and intuitions over a rational, rule-based approach to questions of value and meaning
What is Romanticism?
Edward Cowper's 1857 smelting stove made it easier to process this metal for use in manufacturing and industry.
What is iron?
This language, name after the inventor of the telegraph, involves a series of dots and dashes to represent letters.
What is Morse Code?
This was a period in the United States in the 19th century when large corporations and powerful business tycoons influenced politicians with their wealth.
What is the "Gilded Age"?
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
This artistic and intellectual movement valued representing the world as it is even if this meant breaking artistic and social conventions.
What is Realism?
The "Bessemer Process," perfected in 1856, paved the way for tall buildings like skyscrapers which were built using this alloy.
What is steel?
In 1888, George Eastman invented an inexpensive box camera that became the standard consumer purchase of this company based out of Rochester, New York.
What is Kodak?
The process of this occurred in the late 1800s as immigrants and farm laborers migrated to cities in search of jobs.
What is urbanization?
This movement, founded by Giuseppe Mazzini in 1832, strived to unite the Italian people around their common language and cultural ties.
What is "Young Italy"?
This realist author wrote "Of Mice and Men" and "The Grapes of Wrath."
Who is John Steinbeck?
Invented by Sir Joseph Swan in 1881, the first useable incandescent light bulb was installed in the Savoy Theatre of this European city.
Where is London?
In 1807, Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston launched the first steamboat on its maiden voyage along the Hudson River from New York City to this state capital.
What is Albany?
Due to rapid industrialization, this caused a drastic change in America's labor system in which traditional commerce became obsolete.
What is the Market Revolution?
This Italian monarch forced Cavour's northern Italy and Garibaldi's southern Italy to unite under his reign following the capture of Rome in 1871.
Who is Victor Emmanuel II?
This Romantic composer wrote "Adelaide" and "Moonlight Sonata."
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
In 1859, Edwin Drake created the first modern oil well in this Pennsylvania town.
Where is Titusville?
In 1844, this self-taught chemist born in New Haven, Connecticut developed the chemical process to make vulcanized rubber now used in car tires.
Who is Charles Goodyear?
Popularized in the United States by Francis Cabot Lowell, this is a system in which a worker sells his or her labor to an employer under a contract.
What is wage labor?
This Prussian ruler became the first "kaiser" of the Second Reich in 1871.
Who is Wilhelm I?
This artistic and intellectual movement rejected academic traditions of representing the world in order to evoke strong, but subtle, perceptions of moments of time.
What is Impressionism?