Chapter 20: Mass Society and Democracy

Alexander Graham Bell

A revolution in communications began when ________ invented the telephone in 1876 and Guglielmo Marconi sent the first radio waves across the Atlantic in 1901.

Thomas Edison

The creation of the light bulb by ________ in the United States and Joseph Swan in Great Britain opened homes and cities to electric lights.

Amusement parks

________ introduced people to exciting new experiences and technology.

Thirteenth Amendment

In 1865, the ________ to the Constitution was passed, abolishing slavery.

Modern feminism

________, had its beginnings during the Enlightenment, when some women advocated equality for women based on the doctrine of natural rights.

Wassily Kandinsky

________, a Russian who worked in Germany, was one of the founders of abstract expressionism.

Pablo Picasso

________ was from Spain but settled in Paris in 1904.

Samoan Islands

The ________ in the Pacific became the first important United States colony.

twentieth century

At the beginning of the ________, Albert Einstein, a German- born scientist working in Switzerland, provided a new view of the universe.

Industrialization

________ began late in Russia but progressed rapidly after 1890.

Modernism

________ in the arts revolutionized architecture and gave rise to a new principle known as functionalism.

early twentieth centuries

In the late nineteenth and ________, scientific theories were sometimes applied inappropriately to achieve desired results.

London

Between 1800 and 1900, the population in ________ grew from 960, 000 to 6, 500, 000.

Second Industrial Revolution

The ________ produced a new group of white- collar workers between the lower middle class and the lower classes.

Palestine

Settlement in ________ was difficult, however, because it was then part of the Ottoman Empire, which was opposed to Jewish immigration.

Marx

According to ________, oppressor and oppressed have "stood in constant opposition to one another "throughout history.

Balkan

The ________ territories of Bosnia and Herzegovina were placed under the protection of Austria- Hungary.

Electricity

________ was a major new form of energy that proved to be of great value.

nineteenth century

In the ________, Jews were increasingly granted legal equality in many European countries.

Anti Semitism

________- hostility toward and discrimination against Jews- was not new to European civilization.

Austria Hungary

In 1908, ________ took the drastic step of annexing Bosnia and Herzegovina.

sive procession of workers

On January 22, 1905, a mas- ________ went to the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to present a petition of grievances to the czar.

Impressionism

________ was a movement that began in France in the 1870s, when a group of artists rejected the studios where artists had traditionally worked and went out into the countryside to paint nature directly.

industrial workforce

During much of the nineteenth century, working- class groups maintained the belief that women should remain at home to bear and nurture children and should not be allowed in the ________.

Electricity

________ gave birth to a series of inventions.