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Topic 5b vocabulary
Topic 5b Vocabuary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| laissez faire | the idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs |
| Pinckney Treaty | agreement with Spain that let Americans ship their goods down the Mississippi and store them in New Orleans |
| Marbury v. Madison | Court case in which the Supreme Court ruled that it had the power to decide whether laws passed by Congress were constitutional |
| Louisiana Purchase | the vast territory extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains |
| smuggling | the act of importing or exporting goods in violation of trade laws |
| expedition | a long voyage of exploration |
| Embargo Act | a law that imposed a total ban on foreign trade |
| embargo | a ban on trade |
| impressment | the practice of forcing people into military service |
| judicial review | the power of the Supreme Court to declare a law unconstitutional |
| War Hawks | the members of Congress from the South and the West who called for war with Britain prior to the War of 1812 |
| Treaty of Ghent | Treaty that ended the War of 1812 |
| Battle of New Orleans | the last battle of the War of 1812; led by Andrew Jackson, and ended in a U.S. victory against Britain |
| nationalism | a devotion to one's nation and its interests |
| sectionalism | loyalty to a state or section rather than to the whole country |
| Monroe Doctrine | President Monroe's policy warning European nations not to interfere in Latin American |
| American System | a program for economic growth that called for high tariffs on imports |
| creole | a person born in Spain's American colonies to Spanish parents |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | treaty in which Spain agreed to sell Florida to the United States |
| Treaty of Greenville | treaty that stated native Americans gave up land that would later become part of Ohio |
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