Unit 4 Vocabulary

The President's group of advisers

• Cabinet

• Alien

• Sedition

• Congress

A high tax on imported goods to protect a country's industries by making foreign goods more expensive.

• protective tariff

• sedition

• precedents

• Embargo

Taking people against their will and forcing them to serve in the military. British were forcing U.S. sailors into British Navy.

• impressment

• Treasury

• cabinet

• Neutrality

Deals with money and the economy

• Treasury

• Laissez-faire

• impressment

• national security

Private business able to operate in a supply and demand market with minimal government interference.

• free-enterprise

• cabinet

• sedition

• precedents

A ban on trade

• Embargo
• protective tariff
• Treasury
• cabinet

A position of not taking sides in a conflict

• Neutrality
• impressment
• War Hawks
• protective tariff

A form of government in which the people select representatives to govern them and make laws.

• Republic

• Federal

• Confederation

• Democracy

Plans for dealing with national issues.

• Domestic Policy

• Sedition

• Foreign Policy

• National security

The ability to keep the country safe from attack or harm

• national security

• Treasury

• sedition

• cabinet