Chapter 5 Vocabulary

a situation where enemy ships patrol a port to keep weapons, ammunition, food, or other supplies from moving in or out

• embargo

• import

• blockade

• export

seizing something for public use or forcing someone into public service

• impressment

• tariff

• embargo

• pardon

a ban on trade with a specific nation or group of nations

• monarch

• precedent

• nationalism

• embargo

a good or service sold to another country

• impressment

• embargo

• pardon

• export

the ruler in a government in which authority over the people is retained through a ruling family

• nationalism

• monarch

• tariff

• precedent

to forgive an error or offense

• import

• impressment

• pardon

• blockade

loyalty and devotion to one’s country and support for its interests above those of other countries or peoples

• nationalism

• precedent

• export

• monarch

a tax that is placed on goods brought into one country from another

• pardon

• export

• import

• tariff

a good or service brought into one country from another

• nationalism

• monarch

• import

• tariff

an action or event that serves as a guide for similar actions or events in the future

• import

• pardon

• tariff

• precedent