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