Chapter 12 Vocabulary Foreign Affairs in the Young Nation

to mean or represent

• Isolationism

• Signify

• Blockade

• Neutrality

to follow, as in a goal or purpose

• Neutrality

• Embargo

• Signify

• Pursue

a policy of not choosing sides in a dispute or war between other countries

• Embargo

• Blockade

• Neutrality

• Isolationism

a policy of avoiding political or military agreements with other countries

• Isolationism

• Embargo

• Monroe Doctrine

• Neutrality

a government order that forbids trade with another country

• Pursue

• Monroe Doctrine

• Embargo

• Blockade

a closing off of an area to keep people or supplies from goin in or out

• Blockade

• Embargo

• Signify

• Isolationism

to free

• Embargo

• Signify

• Blockade

• Liberate

to stop doing something

• Signify

• Cease

• Blockade

• Pursue

President James Monroe's declaration in 1823 that the Western Hemisphere was no longer open to European colonization

• Cease

• Monroe Doctrine

• Embargo

• Blockade