Unit 5 Lesson 14 and 15 Vocabulary Test

an economic system based on the private ownership of farms and businesses

• capitalism
• embargo
• Blockade
• American System

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

• American System
• Blockade
• embargo
• isolationism

a religious folk song of African American origin

• embargo
• Monroe Doctrine
• spiritual
• capitalism

a policy of avoiding political or military agreements with other countries

• Monroe Doctrine
• spiritual
• Blockade
• isolationism

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

• Monroe Doctrine
• capitalism
• embargo
• isolationism

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

• neutrality
• Blockade
• Monroe Doctrine
• spiritual

a proposal to the government that called for taxes on imports, federally funded transportation projects, and a new national bank

• embargo
• American System
• capitalism
• isolationism

art made by ordinary people (as opposed to trained artists) using traditional methods

• American System
• folk art
• spiritual
• capitalism

unexplored wilderness at the edge of the country

• isolationism
• Blockade
• embargo
• frontier

a government order that forbids trade with another country

• embargo
• capitalism
• spiritual
• American System