Lesson 12 Vocabulary

a closing off of an area to keep people or supplies from going in or out

• cease

• blockade

• liberated

• Monroe Doctrine

to stop doing something

• cease

• blockade

• liberated

• isolationism

a government order that forbids trade with another country

• cease

• embargo

• neutrality

• pursue

a policy of avoiding political or military agreements with other countries

• signifies

• cease

• pursue

• isolationism

to free

• cease

• embargo

• liberated

• Monroe Doctrine

President James Monroe’s declaration in 1823 that the Western Hemisphere was no longer open to European colonization

• Embrago

• Isolationism

• Monroe Doctrine

• Signifies

a policy of not choosing sides in a dispute or war between other countries

• pursue

• isolationism

• neutrality

• cease

to follow, as in a goal or purpose

• pursue

• neutrality

• liberated

• isolationism

to mean or represent

• embargo

• signifies

• isolationism

• Monroe Doctrine