Louisiana Purchase Vocab

Question 0

Continental Divide

Answer 0

Mountain ridge that separates river systems flowing toward opposite sides of a continent

Question 1

Confederation

Answer 1

League of independent states or nations

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Democratic

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Ensuring that all people have the same rights

Question 3

Embargo

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Ban on trade

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Free market

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Economic system in which goods and services are exchanged with little regulation

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Impressment

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Practice of forcing people into military service

Question 6

Judicial review

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Power of the Supreme Court to decide whether the acts of a president or laws passed by congress are constitutional

Question 7

Laissez faire

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Idea that a government should play as small as role as possible in economic affairs

Question 8

Nationalism

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Excessive pride in one’s nation

Question 9

Nonintercourse act

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A 1809 law that allowed Americans to carry on trade with all nations except Britain and France

Question 10

Pinckney treaty

Answer 10

A 1795 agreement with Spain that let american ship their goods down the Mississippi River and store them in New Orleans

Question 11

Smuggling

Answer 11

Importing or exporting goods in violation of trade laws