section 6
life in the new nation: foreign policy
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- tariff
- tax on foreign goods brought into a country
- impressment
- act of forcing someone to serve in the navy
- spoils system
- rewarding supporters of jackson with government jobs
- farewell address
- george washingtons words: dont let political parties seperate the USA, stay out of other countries economic problems
- foreign policy
- actions that a nation takes in relation to another nation
- trail of tears
- forcing indians to move from east to west, without food shelter...
- lewis and clark
- president asked them to see the lives of native americans
- protective tariff
- tax on imported goods goods to protect a country's industry from foreign trade
- laizzez-faire
- idea that government should play as small a role as possible in econmic affairs
- treaty of ghent
- signed in Ghent, nothing was adjusted or settled
- war of 1812
- war between US and britian
- nullify
- to cancel
- embargo
- ban on trade with another country
- monroe doctorine
- preisdent monroes foreign policy statement warning european nations not to interfere in latin ameirca
- erie canal
- great lakes and hudson river, helped trade in NY
- eli whitney
- inverotr made interchangeable parts, made machine-made parts identical
- alliance
- ally or friendship with someone
- cotton gin
- seperated seeds from cotton
- embargo act
- forbade americans to export or import goods
- whiskey rebellion
- tested strengh of new government, taxon whiskey farmers rebelled
- andrew jackson
- hero or villian president