Lesson 12 Foreign Affairs in the Young nation

an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.

• blockade

• embargo

• cease

• isolationism

to stop

• cease

• blockade

• isolationism

• petition

a government order preventing trade between nations due to a political disagreement or problem.

• embargo

• blockade

• cease

• neutrality

a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.

• isolationism

• tyranny

• merchantilism

• embargo

To set free

• liberated

• enslave

• monopoly

• isolationism

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

• Monroe Doctrine (1823)

• isolationism

• War of 1812

• Declaration of Independence

A position of not taking sides in a conflict

• neutrality

• isolationism

• impressment

• piracy

to follow, as in a goal or purpose

• pursue

• blockade

• neutrality

• embargo

to mean or represent

• signifies

• pursue

• boycott

• embargo

Last major battle of the War of 1812; making Andrew Jackson a national hero and propelling him later to the presidency.

• Battle of New Orleans, 1815

• War of 1812

• World War I

• American Civil War