HIST1112: Chapter 26 Quiz 1
By the 1830s, over __________ British people drew wages from textile factories.
1,000,000.
Although Samuel Morse had already invented a telegraph transmission code, it was only in the __________ that major continental landmasses were linked by submarine transoceanic cables.
1860s and 1870s.
The English philosopher Herbert Spencer proposed a theory that came to be called "social ________", which sought to apply the ideas of natural selection to races, ethnicities, and peoples.
Darwinism
The invention of _______ by the Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Bernhard Nobel aided in the construction of the Panama Canal (1914).
Dynamite
The most famous—and most radical—of British political feminists was _________, who together with her daughters formed the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903.
Emmeline Pankhurst.
Ferdinand von Zeppelin's dirigible airship was kept aloft by the incorporation of bags filled with _________ gas and powered by two 16-horsepower engines.
Hydrogen.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels dashed off their pamphlet entitled The Communist Manifesto in the city of ____________.
London.
The first fully automatic __________ was conceived by Hiram Maxim, an American inventor and dabbler in electricity.
Machine gun
In the late summer of 1845, Mary Paul, age 15, went to work in a spinning room in the booming mill town of Lowell, _______.
Massachusetts.
The Communist Manifesto declared, "The _________ have nothing to lose but their chains."
Proletarians
Frederic A. Bartholdi, builder of the ___________, rhapsodized at the American Centennial Exhibition in 1876 that the mammoth Corliss steam engine had "the beauty and almost the grace of human form" in its operation.
Statue of Liberty.
In 1911 the Austrian composer and theoretician Arnold Schoenberg announced a new, modern style of musical composition that featured Freudian themes along with:
The noise of engines and machines.
Beginning with a series of papers published in ________, Albert Einstein destroyed the Newtonian notion of a certain, absolute, and mechanistic universe.
1905.
Two Germans, Gottlieb Daimler and Karl ______ are usually credited with inventing the automobile, but it seems more likely that the first combustion-engine automobile was created by Austrian Siegfried Marcus.
Benz.
Due in large part to concerns for the domestic woolen industry, the British Parliament enacted the protectionist ________ Acts of 1700 and 1720, which prohibited the importation of cotton goods from India.
Calico.
In 1900 Sigmund Freud published his highly influential book on The Interpretation of _______, which developed his ideas of the subconscious mind.
Dreams.
An English _________ League was established for organizing sporting activities in 1888.
Football.
One social activist ___________, the child of a wealthy mill, drew attention to the abysmal conditions in his/her father's factories.
Friedrich Engels
By 1903, __________ had enhanced the power and range of his device enough to send the first transatlantic radio message, from Cape Cod in the United States to Cornwall in England.
Guglielmo Marconi.
By 1869 the first transcontinental railroad was joined with a final golden spike at Promontory Point, _______, resulting in an astonishing total of 53,000 rail miles in the US by 1870.
Utah.
