Second Industrial Revolution Quiz

Sophomore History

Labor Union

a group of workers, formed in a group to work towards and protect their own rights in a sense.

Tenement

small rooms/apartments in cities spaced closely together, typically sharing a communal toilet.

Jacob Riis

Pioneered the idea of photography for social change.

Lewis Hine

-American sociologist

-used photography to depict children in harsh working conditions

Photostories

-Created by Lewis Hine

-Referred to his documental photography

Standards of Living

The way typical, normal people spend their lives and the things they possessed in that life.

Karl Marx

-a German phiosopher

-had theories about communism, capitalism, and socialism

-believed there would be a communist rev.:workers would take collective ownership of all industries

Communism

Done by Karl Marx, everyone shares wealth and everything is equal

Socialism

production, distribution, and exchange should be run as a community as a whole.

Proletariat

a worker

Social Democracy

The in between of communism and socialism, achieving equity in a more democratic way

Robert Koch

discovered that bacteria cuased tuberculiosis

Louis Pasteur

showed the link between microbes and disease, the entirety of germ-theory

Joseph Lister

discovered that antiseptics prevented infection

Stock

shared ownership of a company

Corporations

a business owned by many investors who buy shares of stocks and risk only the amount of their investment

Cartel

a group of companies that join together to control the production and price of a product

Germ Theory

infectious diseases are caused by certain microbes (bacteria)