| A | B |
|---|
| precedence | serves as an example |
| George Washington | president who promoted isolationism |
| neutrality | not choosing sides in a dispute or war |
| isolationism | avoiding military or political agreements with other countries |
| Jay Treaty | British agreement to remove troops from the Ohio Valley |
| XYZ Affair | French refusal to negotiate without a bribe |
| tribute | money given in exchange for protection |
| alliance | agreement between countries to provide help |
| impressment | kidnapping sailors and forcing them to work on the ship of another country |
| John Adams | president who refused to declare war on France after the XYZ Affair |
| embargo | government order to forbid trade with another country |
| blockade | closing an area to prevent good from being shipped in or out |
| Monroe Doctrine | declaration that the Western Hemisphere was not open to European colonization |
| Talleyrand | French diplomat who demanded a bribe to negotiate with Americans |
| Thomas Jefferson | President who protected U.S. merchant ships from Barbary pirates |
| James Madison | president who declared war on Britain in 1812 |
| Andrew Jackson | leader of American troops at the Battle of New Orleans |
| War Hawks | congressmen who were eager for war with Britain |
| half war | an undeclared war that uses the U.S. Navy and privateers |
| Napoleon | French leader who agreed to stop attacking U.S. ships |
