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| tribute | a payment by one ruler or nation to another in acknowledgment of submission or as the price of protection |
| neutral rights | the capability of a state to remain neutral toward other states at war with one another |
| embargo | an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country |
| nationalism | identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations |
| frigate | a sailing warship |
| offensive | an attacking military campaign |
| Treaty of Ghent | ended the War of 1812 |
| impressment | the forced conscription of men into a military force, especially a naval force |
| Battle of New Orleans | U.S. victory against Great Britain in the War of 1812 and the final major battle of that conflict |
| Hartford Convention | held in 1814-15 by the Federalist Party for the purpose of documenting grievances against the War of 1812 |
| grievance | complaint |
| census | population count |
| region | an area or division, especially part of a country or the world having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries |
| steamboat | a boat that is propelled by a steam engine, especially a paddle-wheel craft of a type used widely on rivers in the 19th century |
| barge | a flat-bottomed boat for carrying freight, typically on canals and rivers, either under its own power or towed by another |
| tugboat | a powerful boat used for towing larger vessels, especially in harbor |
| internal | of or situated on the inside |
| tariff | tax on imported goods |
| sectionalism | loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole |
| national bank | central bank controlled by the government |
| Rush-Bagot Agreement | a treaty between the United States and Great Britain limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain, following the War of 1812 |
| Convention of 1818 | The Convention respecting fisheries, boundary and the restoration of slaves |
| Monroe Doctrine | a United States foreign policy position that opposes European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. It holds that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers is a potentially hostile act against the United States |
| Adams–Onís Treaty | also known as the Transcontinental Treaty, the Spanish Cession, the Florida Purchase Treaty, or the Florida Treaty, was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and Mexico |
| technology | the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry |
| cotton gin | a machine for separating cotton from its seeds |
| capitalism | an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit |
| free enterprise | a capitalist economic system in which private business operates in competition and largely free of state control |
| Wealth of Nations | a book written by Adam Smith in 1776, which outlines the principles of free market economics and capitalism |
| agriculture | the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products |
| industry | economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories |
| manufacuring | the making of articles on a large scale using machinery; industrial production |
| patent | a government authority or license conferring a right or title for a set period, especially the sole right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention |
| Wilderness Road | one of two principal routes used by colonial and early national era settlers to reach Kentucky from the East |
| turnpike | a busy road that charges users a fee to drive on it |
| canal | an artificial waterway constructed to allow the passage of boats or ships inland or to convey water for irrigation |
| Clermont | the first steamboat in public service |
| Era of Good Feelings | a period in the political history of the United States that reflected a sense of national purpose and a desire for unity among Americans in the aftermath of the War of 1812 |
| American System | a federal policy based on a market economy |
| Fletcher v. Peck | a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in which the Supreme Court first ruled a state law unconstitutional |
| Missouri Compromise | federal legislation of the United States that balanced desires of northern states to prevent the expansion of slavery in the country with those of southern states to expand it |
| cede | give up (power or territory) |
| War of 1812 | conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights |
