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CLEP West Civilization - 2nd Industrial Revolution And Changing World Ideas
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Answer 20 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 'the X ray as discovered and led many to question prevailing views about the solidity of matter.' rea p. 75
Joseph Conrad
Public Health Act
1895
Tourism
2. Owned the Standard Oil company and had power over 75%+ of the U. S. oil.
John D. Rockefeller
Gregor Mendal
Salvation Army
Louis Pasteur
3. Discovered radium in 1898 and they won the Nobel Prize in 1903.
Salvation Army
Gregor Mendal
Marie Curie
Daimler and Benz
4. The belief that the Bible was like other old books and was wise by its history was not acurate.
1895
1876
John D. Rockefeller
Higher Criticism
5. Started in the 1800's due to people's growing wealth.
Tourism
Higher Criticism
Freudian psychology
1884
6. Wrote the novel Heart of Darkness in 1902. The story is set in the Congo.
Tourism
Higher Criticism
Gregor Mendal
Joseph Conrad
7. Telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell
Tourism
1867
1876
Albert Einstein
8. Studied genetics in peas. 'father of genetics' Austrian monk.
Freudian psychology
1884
Gregor Mendal
Tourism
9. We can from life lower than us.
Darwinism
1867
John D. Rockefeller
1884
10. Theory of relativitiy and added time to the view of the universe. So: height - width - depth - and Time.
1884
Albert Einstein
Tourism
John D. Rockefeller
11. Our mental processes are irrational and subconsious.
Public Health Act
Freudian psychology
1867
Robert Koch
12. 1878 by William and Catherine Booth
Salvation Army
Freudian psychology
Joseph Conrad
Albert Einstein
13. William Gladstone headed the Reform Act which gave 60% of the men in Britain the right to vote.
Higher Criticism
Darwinism
1884
1901
14. 1875. Britain. it was not legal anymore to put up buildings without plumbling.
Public Health Act
John D. Rockefeller
Salvation Army
1901
15. French. Discovered that diseases are caused by bacteria. invented pasteurization.
Salvation Army
Robert Koch
Louis Pasteur
1901
16. 'perfected th internal combustion engine' rea. p. 72
Salvation Army
Daimler and Benz
Darwinism
Higher Criticism
17. In 1909 most people could afford this invention by Heny Ford.
1895
Freudian psychology
Marie Curie
Model T
18. First intercontinental cable for the telegraph was done between North America and Britain.
Joseph Conrad
Model T
Louis Pasteur
1867
19. Discovered what caused tuberculosis.
Robert Koch
Joseph Conrad
Model T
Marie Curie
20. Marconi was the first to send radio waves across the Atlantic ocean.
Tourism
Freudian psychology
Model T
1901