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New Nation
New Nation Voabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| presidency | the time a person serves as president |
| departments | parts of the government that report to the president |
| cabinet | the group of people a president names to act as official advisors |
| head | lead; be the top person |
| advisers | people who give advice or opinions |
| points of view | opinions |
| manufacturing | the business of making goods by hand or by machine |
| mob | large crowd that is out of control |
| tyrants | rulers who are cruel to their people |
| political parties | groups of people who share ideas about government and who work to get their members elected |
| wilderness | land in its wild, natural state where few or no people live |
| Louisiana Purchase | the 1803 sale by France of much of western North America to the United States |
| expedition | a trip made by a group of people for a definite purpose |
| frontier | the area on the edge of a settled region |
| policy | a plan of action that a government makes |
| isolationism | a policy of not getting involved in other countries' wars |
| foreign policy | the plans a country makes for how it will act toward other countries |
| Monroe Doctrine | the idea that Europe should not set up new colonies in the Americas and the United States would stay out of European problems |
| hemisphere | one half of earth's surface |
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