Unit 8 Vocabulary - Age of Jefferson

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

• embargo

• tribute

• blockade

• impressment

ban on trade with another country

• blockade

• embargo

• tribute

• impressment

Those who were eager for war with Britain

• natiionalism

• Republic

• tribute

• War Hawks

Money paid by one country to another in return for protection

• tribute

• embargo

• blockade

• laissez-faire

forcing people into service, as in the navy

• tribute

• inauguration

• embargo

• impressment

A ceremony in which the president takes the oath of office

• nationalism

• inauguration

• blockade

• embargo

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

• Democracy

• Republic

• monarchy

• communism

A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country

• laissez-faire

• judicial review

• inauguration

• nationalism

review by the US Supreme Court of the constitutional validity of a legislative act.

• republic

• Judicial Review

• tribute

• embargo

a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.

• laissez-faire

• republic

• democracy

• tribute