Week 23 Vocabulary Quiz

The ability to keep the country safe from attack or harm.

• Protection Law

• National Security

• Foreign Policy

• Federal bureaucracy

A nation's overall plan for dealing with other nations.

• Foreign policy

• Treaty

• Embargo

• Trade Sanctions

Rewarding people with government jobs on the basis of their political support

• Spoils System

• Merit System

• Federal bureaucracy

• Embargo

A group of advisers to the president that includes the heads of 15 top level executive agencies.

• Cabinet

• Federal bureaucracy

• National Security

• Executive Agreement

Hiring people into government jobs on the basis of their qualifications.

• Merit System

• Embargo

• Spoils System

• Cabinet

Agencies and the employees of the executive branch of government

• Federal bureaucracy

• Embargo

• Foreign Policy

• Executive Agreement

An effort to punish another nation by imposing trade barriers.

• Trade Sanctions

• Embargo

• Foregin Policy

• Trade Policy

A formal agreement between the governments of two or more countries.

• Treaty

• Policy

• Security

• Agreement

An agreement among a group of nations that prohibits them form trading with a particular country

• Embargo

• Treaty

• Trade Treaty

• Policy on Trade