Vocab 19 Flashcards
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Invention allowing messages to be sent quickly from long distance by sending electric signals through wire
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Telegraph
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Organized effort to end alcohol consumption
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Temperance movement
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Tax placed on goods entering a country from another country
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Tariff
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To measure an area using special instruments and techniques of mathematics
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Survey
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Excess; quantity left over
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Surplus
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Person who works for women’s right to vote
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Suffragist
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Right to vote
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Suffrage
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Person who lives in the suburbs
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Suburbanite
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Grant of land or money
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Subsidy
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Narrow passage that connects 2 large bodies water
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Strait
