Vocabulary: March 22, 2004
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| impress | to seize by force |
| impressed | seized by force |
| impressment | the act of seizing by force; the British practice of stopping American ships, seizing American sailors, and forcing them to serve in the British navy |
| embargo | a government ban on some or all trade with a foreign nation |
| War Hawks | members of Congress, mostly from the South and West, who wanted war with Great Britain in the early 1800's |
| secede | to leave or withdraw |
| cede | to give |
| cession | something which is given away (frequently refers to land) |
| doctrine | a statement of official government policy |
| sectionalism | having more loyalty to the interests of your own region or section of the country than to the nation as a whole |
| industrial revolution | a time of change from doing work at home by hand to doing work in factories with machines; new sources of power replaced human and animal power and there was a shift from farming to manufacturing as the main form of work |