The suffix meter means an instrument that is used to measure something. Words containing this root word include: ammeter; altimeter; anemometer; thermometer; barometer; voltmeter; odometer; speedometer; tachymeter; tachometer; radiometer; spectrometer; spherometer; Meter is actually quite different to metre, which refers to an actual unit of measurement. In the original UK English, such units of measurement are as listed below, and not containing the Americanised spelling of meter. metre; millimetre; centimetre; decimetre; kilometre
The first and only president of the Confederate States of America was Jefferson Davis, since he came to power at the very beginning of the Civil War, and after the Civil War the Confederacy ceased to be. Comments.
Abraham Lincoln became the United Statesâ 16th President in 1861, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy in 1863. Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address: âIn your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.