New Nation - Vocabulary

Issues occurring within the boundaries of one’s country

• foreign affair

• domestic affair

• impressment

• precedent

Issues dealing with other countries or activities overseas

• foreign affair

• domestic affair

• embargo

• secede

a prohibition or blocking of trade with a certain country

• secede

• embargo

• cabinet

• precedent

to withdraw or break away from a nation or organization

• secede

• neutral

• sedition

• alien

a group of advisers to a president

• cabinet

• precedent

• domestic affairs

• alien

something done or said that becomes an example for others to follow

• precedent

• sedition

• embargo

• secede

seizing people against their will and forcing them to serve in the military or other public services

• alien

• sedition

• impressment

• embargo

a person living in a country who is not a citizen of that country

• alien

• embargo

• impressment

• sedition

activities aimed at weakening the established government by inciting resistance or rebellion to authority

• sedition

• embargo

• alien

• precedent

The belief that the federal government should not interfere with economic affairs

• Laissez Faire

• foregin affair

• domestic affair

• embargo