Chapter 9 Worksheet

Chapter 9 Worksheet

Matching

Match the terms to the descriptions.

a. / temperance movement / f. / Ludwig van Beethoven
b. / urban renewal / g. / Guglielmo Marconi
c. / Alfred Nobel / h. / women’s suffrage
d. / Claude Monet / i. / stock
e. / Louis Pasteur / j. / standard of living

____1.established a link between microbes and disease

____2.invented the radio

____3.reform movement concerned with voting rights

____4.a measure of the quality and availability of necessities and comforts in a society

____5.invented dynamite, a safer form of explosive than others at that time

____6.impressionist painter who relied on the viewer’s eye to blend brush strokes into patches of color

____7.romantic composer who was the first to take full advantage of the broad range of instruments in the modern orchestra

____8.shares of ownership in a corporation

____9.advocated limiting or banning the use of alcoholic beverages

____10.rebuilding poor areas of a city

Multiple Choice

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

____11.Japan lacked many basic resources, yet it industrialized rapidly after 1868 because

a. / Japanese business leaders had a great deal of wealth to invest.
b. / Japanese political leaders placed a high priority on modernization.
c. / Japanese engineers developed superior technology.
d. / many British engineers came to Japan and set up industries there.

____12.Today’s electric generators work on the same principle as the dynamo invented by

a. / Thomas Edison. / c. / Michael Faraday.
b. / Benjamin Franklin. / d. / Guglielmo Marconi.

____13.A production method in which workers repeatedly perform one task in the manufacturing process is called

a. / interchangeable parts. / c. / cottage industry.
b. / the Bessemer process. / d. / the assembly line.

____14.The population of Europe exploded between 1800 and 1900 in large part because

a. / couples had more children.
b. / medical advances reduced the death rate.
c. / cities eliminated slums.
d. / couples started families at a younger age.

____15.The popular saying “A man’s home is his castle” reflected what middle-class value of the late 1800s?

a. / temperance / c. / cult of domesticity
b. / women’s suffrage / d. / romanticism

____16.The purpose of Normal Schools was to train students to be

a. / doctors. / c. / good wives.
b. / priests. / d. / teachers.

____17.Englishman John Dalton made an important breakthrough in chemistry by showing that

a. / atoms exist within the periodic table.
b. / all atoms are basically alike.
c. / each element has its own kind of atoms.
d. / elements can be grouped according to their atomic weights.

____18.What theory applied the idea of natural selection to the development of business and society?

a. / socialism / c. / Social Darwinism
b. / social gospel / d. / capitalism

____19.Romanticism can be described as a revolt against the Enlightenment’s emphasis on

a. / religion. / c. / the past.
b. / reason. / d. / legends and folklore.

____20.An artist of the mid-1800s who portrayed the harsh lives of slum dwellers was probably using what artistic style?

a. / realism / c. / neoclassicism
b. / impressionism / d. / romanticism

____21.Russia did not industrialize as soon as other countries because it lacked

a. / expertise. / c. / technology.
b. / capital. / d. / political stability.

____22.The technology for America’s first textile factory came from

a. / Japan. / c. / Germany.
b. / Britain. / d. / France.

____23.The Bessemer process was a method for producing

a. / electricity. / c. / identical components.
b. / textiles. / d. / steel.

____24.What invention did the internal combustion engine make possible?

a. / the steamboat / c. / the telegraph
b. / the Wright Brothers’ flying machine / d. / Faraday’s electric motor

____25.A company that sells ownership shares to many investors is a

a. / corporation. / c. / monopoly.
b. / trust. / d. / cartel.

____26.What contribution to medical science did German doctor Robert Koch make in the 1880s?

a. / He identified the bacteria that causes tuberculosis.
b. / He traced malaria to the mosquito.
c. / He developed a process called pasteurization.
d. / He developed a cure for yellow fever.

____27.Who discovered that sterilizing surgical instruments with antiseptics would help prevent infection?

a. / Florence Nightingale / c. / Louis Pasteur
b. / Joseph Lister / d. / Robert Koch

____28.What limited the effectiveness of women involved in the temperance movement?

a. / They cared too much about the suffrage movement.
b. / They did not want to be involved in political issues of the day.
c. / They could not vote and were barred from most schools.
d. / They were too busy with their family life to vote.

____29.Reformers in what movement argued that the use of alcoholic beverages harmed family life and reduced worker productivity?

a. / temperance / c. / suffrage
b. / abolition / d. / social gospel

____30.Bedford College in England and Mount Holyoke in the United States were among the first colleges for

a. / a classical education. / c. / people of all races.
b. / a religious education. / d. / women.

____31.In 1869, what chemist developed a table that became the basis for the periodic table of elements used today?

a. / John Dalton / c. / Charles Lyell
b. / Dmitri Mendeleyev / d. / Thomas Edison

____32.Which of the following were writers of the realism movement?

a. / Edgar Degas and Georges Seurat
b. / William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley
c. / Gustave Courbet and Thomas Eakins
d. / Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo

____33.What postimpressionist painter used a style that looked like “primitive” folk art?

a. / Claude Monet / c. / Charlotte Brontë
b. / Paul Gauguin / d. / Henrik Ibsen

____34.What did Mathew B. Brady accomplish in the visual arts?

a. / His pictures captured the beauty and power of nature.
b. / He photographed the cathedral at Rouen, France from different angles.
c. / He took realistic pictures of the Civil War.
d. / He took postimpressionist pictures with a dreamlike quality.

____35.In the late 1800s, what did Charles Lyell accomplish?

a. / He wrote On the Origin of Species.
b. / He uncovered fossilized Neanderthal bones in Germany.
c. / He was a pioneer in the new science of geology.
d. / He developed atomic theory.