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Chapter 13
Mass Society and Democracy
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History
10th Grade
03/11/2015

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In the Second Industrial Revolution, what led the way to new industrial frontiers?
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steel, chemicals, electricity, and petroleum
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By 1914, trade unions had
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bettered both the living and working conditions of the working class.
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Although they made up only 5 percent of the population in the early 1900s, which class controlled 30 to 40 percent of the wealth?
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the new elite
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____ founded the Female Association for the Care of the Poor and the Sick in Hamburg, Germany.
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Amalie Sieveking
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Functionalism was the idea that
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buildings, like the products of machines, should be useful and lack unnecessary ornamentation.
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____ were Marxists who rejected the revolutionary approach in favor of a more political approach.
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Revisionists
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Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters founded the
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Women’s Social and Political Union.
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The principle of ministerial responsibility is the idea that
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the prime minister is responsible to the popularly elected legislative body and not to the executive officer.
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The alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy was known as the
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The Triple Alliance
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Whose discovery of radium changed the world’s view of the atom?
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Marie Curie
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According to Sigmund Freud, human behavior was
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strongly determined by repressed experiences.
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____ was a Postimpressionist painter for whom art was a spiritual experience.
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Vincent van Gogh
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sent the first radio waves across the Atlantic
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Guglielmo Marconi
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provided a new source of power in transportation
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internal-combustion engine
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Marxists who rejected the revolutionary approach
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revisionists
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made up nearly 80 percent of the European population in the early 1900s
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The working class
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founded the Women’s Social and Political Union
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Emmeline Pankhurst
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idea that the prime minister is responsible to the legislative body and not to the executive officer
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ministerial responsibility
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Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
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Triple Alliance
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discovered the first radioactive element, radium
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Marie Curie
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published major new theories of human behavior in The Interpretation of Dreams
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Sigmond Freud
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Impressionist painter who sought to capture the interplay of light, water, and sky
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Claude Monet
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written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
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The Communist Manifesto
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the working class
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proletariat
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bettered both the living and working conditions of the working classes
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trade unions
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made up 5 percent of the population, but controlled 30 to 40 percent of the wealth
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new elite
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German nursing pioneer
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Amalie Sieveking
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Russian legislative assembly created by Nicholas II
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Duma
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Great Britain, France, and Russia
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Triple Entente
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developed the special theory of relativity
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Albert Einstein
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applied to human society in a radical way by nationalists and racists
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Social Darwinism
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created the style of painting called cubism
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Pablo Picasso
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Describe the impact of compulsory, universal education on the society of the Second Industrial Revolution.
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Describe the role of working-class women in the Second Industrial Revolution.
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Describe the impact of Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity on society
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Describe the effects of compulsory education on employment opportunities for women.
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