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Lesson 12
Foreign Affairs in the New Nation
Term | Definition |
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alliance | an agreement made with other nations to aid and support each other |
blockade | a closing off of an area to keep people or supplies from going in or out |
cease | to stop doing something |
embargo | a government order that forbids trade with another country |
impressment | the act of forcing someone to serve in the military against their will |
liberated | to free, especially from a situation that limits freedoms |
piracy | Robbery at sea, often demanded tribute money or would capture ships and ransom their crews. |
pursue | to follow, as in a goal or purpose |
tribute | money paid for protection |
Embargo Act | An embargo put into place by Jefferson, this act stopped all trade with other countries, and prevented foreign ships from entering American ports. American ships could not leave except to trade at other American ports. |
War Hawks | a group of young congressmen from the South and West, including Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun, that were eager to go to war with Britain |
Battle of Tippecanoe | William Henry Harrison led a militia into battle against Shawnee warriors and defeated them, discovered that the Shawnee were armed with British guns |
War of 1812 | A battle fought between the British and Americans. Several buildings in Washington D.C. were burned, including the Capitol and the White House |
The Star-Spangled Banner | written after the Battle at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland, by Francis Scott Key |
Battle of New Orleans | The greatest US victory of the War of 1812, Americans were led by Andrew Jackson, battle was unnecessary |
Treaty of Ghent | The treaty signed in Ghent, Belgium, that ended the War of 1812 |
Monroe Doctrine | President James Monroe’s declaration in 1823 that the Western Hemisphere was no longer open to European colonization |
Tripoli | a Barbary Coast state that declared war on the United States after demanding more tribute payments for protection from piracy |
Thomas Jefferson | Third president of the United States - dealt with Pirates, impressment, war with Tripoli, and the Embargo Act |
James Madison | Fourth president of the United States - Protected sailors and settlers, Battle at Tippecanoe, War of 1812, Treaty of Ghent |
James Monroe | Fifth president of the United States - Latin American revolutions, end of Spanish rule in Latin America, Monroe Doctrine |