Lit1B Vocab Flashcards
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Welfare state
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A system that allowed the government to provide social services like healthcare, unemployment benefit, etc. to people in need, paid for by taxes
2
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Women’s suffrage
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Women’s right to vote in a democracy
3
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Liberal
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Respecting and allowing personal freedoms of many different types of beliefs or behaviour
4
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Epidemic
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A particular problem, usually disease, that seriously affects many people at the same time
5
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Miner
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A person who works in a coal mine (tunnel in the ground where substances are collected)
6
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Strike
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To refuse to work because of an argument with an employer about working conditions, pay levels or job losses, etc.
