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Western Culture in the Nineteenth Century
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10th Grade
03/20/2007

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two
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Of every three children born in the nineteenth century, this many died very young.
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epidemics (or contagious diseases)
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Leading cause of death during most of the 1800s
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bacteria (or germs)
Definition
Pasteur showed that these caused disease.
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rabies
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Pasteur developed a vaccine against this disease passed by animal bites.
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population
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Scientific advances, not a rising birthrate, caused the rapid growth of this.
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surgery
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Medical technique that greatly advanced when it became less painful
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Florence Nightingale
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Person who established professional nursing care for wounded soldiers
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Edward Jenner
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English soldier who developed inoculation
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smallpox
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The first European vaccine prevented this disease.
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Louis Pasteur
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French chemist who studied bacteria and disease
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cowpox
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Disease similar to smallpox used to make a vaccine for smallpox
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ether and chloroform
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Two pain-relieving drugs discovered for medical use in the 1840s
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infection
Definition
In the mid-1800s, patients who survived surgery often died of this.
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childbirth
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Natural process made much safer by the use of antiseptics in hospitals
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sanitation
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Measures such as water purification that greatly reduced disease
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battle wounds
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Antiseptics greatly reduced infection in these effects of war.
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pasteurization
Definition
Process of heating liquids to kill bacteria
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India
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Country where inoculation was practiced in the 400s
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anesthetics
Definition
Drugs that allowed great advances in surgery
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Joseph Lister
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English surgeon who developed a method of reducing bacterial infections
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antiseptics
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Chemicals used to kill germs that caused infection
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Robert Koch
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German who isolated the germs that cause tuberculosis and cholera
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Europe
Definition
Population shifted away from this region in the 1800s
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residential suburbs
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People began moving out of inner cities to these areas in the late 1800s.
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the father
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Children legally belonged to this parent during most of the 1800s
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food
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One reason people lived longer after 1850; there was more of this basic staple available.
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illiteracy
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Widespread condition of being unable to read and write
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10 million
Definition
Number, in millions, of people who left Europe for the U.S. between 1870 and 1900
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economic conditions and minority oppression
Definition
Two major reasons for emigration
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refrigerator cars
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Railroad cars designed to transport meat, fruit, and vegetables
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voting and holding public office
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Parts of public life from which women were barred
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the American and French Revolutions
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18th-century French and U.S. events that made it seem important for all citizens to be educated
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free public education
Definition
Type of schooling first offered to French and U.S. citizens
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local (or state) government
Definition
Level of government that controlled school systems in the U.S.
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the central government
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Level of government that controlled school systems in Western Europe
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jobs
Definition
Women first gained some independence because of these.
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women and children
Definition
Reform laws limited the working hours of these people.
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widespread literacy (or education)
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Mass publication of reading materials was made possible by this.
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Wyoming
Definition
U.S. state that allowed women the right to vote in 1869
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New Zealand
Definition
Country that allowed women the vote in 1893
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universal and compulsory
Definition
After 1870 education became this, by law.
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Lord Byron
Definition
English romantic poet who died in the Greek struggle for independence
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nationalism
Definition
Growing sentiment that led authors to write about their own countries
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the Grimm brothers (Jakob nd Wilhelm)
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Germans who collected their country's fairy tales
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Edgar Allan Poe
Definition
American author of the fantastic, supernatural, and mysterious
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War and Peace
Definition
Tolstoy's monumental novel detailing the realities of war
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Definition
English poet who wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
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Shelley and Keats
Definition
Two major English romantic poets known for their odes
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Sir Walter Scott
Definition
Scottish novelist who wrote about the days of knighthood
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Goethe
Definition
Giant of German literature, noted for being a poet, novelist, and playwright
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James Fenimore Cooper
Definition
U.S. novelist who idealized American Indians and the frontier
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Henrik Ibsen
Definition
Realistic Norwegian dramatist
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Definition
Noble English poet who expressed Victorian values
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Thomas Hardy
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English naturalistic author of The Return of the Native
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Mary Shelley
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Young woman who wrote the famous gothic horror novel Frankenstein
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the Brontë Sisters (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne)
Definition
Three English sisters who published novels under male pseudonyms
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the Three Musketeers
Definition
Alexandre Dumas's three swashbuckling heroes
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regionalism
Definition
Realistic portrayals of everyday life in different parts of the United States
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naturalists
Definition
Realistic writers who wrote objectively about ugly and sordid aspects of life
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Emile Zola
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French leader of the frank and objective school of writing
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Victor Hugo
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French novelist who wrote about a medieval hunchback
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romanticism (or the Romantic Movement)
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Artistic emphasis on feeling, emotion, and imagination
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realism
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Artistic emphasis on showing the world as it is
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Impressionism
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School of painting that explored light and color effects
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Paris
Definition
Center for artists from many lands
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
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German who wrote emotional, expressive symphonies
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Frédéric Chopin
Definition
Polish composer of romantic piano pieces
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Definition
Russian composer of melodic, emotional works such as the Nutcracker Suite
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Giuseppe Verdi
Definition
Great Italian composer of Aïda and other operas
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Richard Wagner
Definition
Opera composer whose plots often came from German myths
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Johannes Brahms
Definition
Great German romantic composer of the "Lullaby"
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Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Definition
The two best-known French Impressionists
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Auguste Rodin
Definition
French sculptor who broke with classical traditions
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Paul Gauguin
Definition
French artist who painted colorful, flat Tahitian scenes
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Vincent Van Gogh
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Dutch painter noted for intense emotions and swirling brush strokes
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France
Definition
Country whose artists dominated painting and sculpture in the 1800s
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Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn
Definition
German composers famous for their songs (3)
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the piano
Definition
New musical instrument of the 1800s
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Franz Liszt
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Hungarian composer of rhapsodies based on native folk songs and dances
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John Constable and J.M.W. Turner
Definition
Two outstanding romantic English landscape painters
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John Constable and J.M.W. Turner
Definition
Two outstanding romantic English landscape painters
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Paul Cézanne
Definition
French postimpressionist artist who emphasized planes of color
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Germany and Austria
Definition
Countries whose artists dominated music in the 1800s
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