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