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Geiger Chapter 9 Content
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History
9th Grade
01/28/2013

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Germany and the United States
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In the 1900's, these following pair of countries were the world's leading industrial nations.
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Improved Sanitation
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This was a direct result of the discovery that germs caused disease.
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Tenements near Factories
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The poor lived in these in the nineteenth century.
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Unions
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This was most closely linked to labor reforms.
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The Middle Class
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This group grew the fastest during the 1800's.
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It disagrees with the Biblical account of creation
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Why does Darwin's theory of evolution cause controversy?
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Landscape showing a violent storm
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What would be an example of a romantic painting?
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A baby
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What is "the ballot" in Figure 9-1 meant to bring to the viewer's mind?
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It would change their life hardly at all
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According to Figure 9-1, how would the vote affect women?
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An Anti-Suffragist
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Figure 9-1 was drawn from what point of view?
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Fooling themselves if they thought the vote would lead to fulfillment.
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According to Figure 9-1, American women were doing what?
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Joseph Lister
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A scientist whose work contributed directly to increased life expectancy in the late 1800's.
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Sewage Systems
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This new feature in city life had the greatest impact on the poor in the late 1800's.
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The Middle Class
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The saying "a woman's place is in the home" reflected the values of which of the following groups in 1850?
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All forms of life evolved over millions of years.
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Darwin challenged traditional beliefs by asserting what?
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Impressionism
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Painters who were part of the movement that focused on capturing fleeting, visual impressions.
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Cartel
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When a group of large businesses bands together to control a single industry
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Realism
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An artist movement that attempted to represent the world as it was.
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Romanticism
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Artists who were a part of this movement aimed to excite strong emotions with their work.
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Assembly line
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A way of organizing workers and machines in order to assemble a finished product efficiently.
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Henry Bessemer
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British engineer who invented a process to produce steel.
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John Dalton
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Quaker schoolteacher who developed modern atomic theory.
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Charles Dickens
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A realist English writer who portrayed the lives of slum dwellers.
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Louis Sullivan
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American Architect who designed skyscrapers.
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