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For the previous century or so, Western nations had paid bribes to the Barbary states to keep them from harassing American and merchant ships.
Pinckney's Treaty
In 1802, Napoleon, now emperor of France, made plans to reclaim Louisiana from Spain.
Napoleon army he had sent to New Orleans had succumbed to tropical diseases and a revolution in Haiti.By the end of 1802, more than thirty thousand veteran troop died.
Several weeks after buying Louisiana, Napoleon declared war on Great Britain.
U.S. exports jumped from $66.5 million to $102.2 million.
During the same four-year period, reexports quadrupled, rising from $13.5 million to $58.4 million.
The British navy also began seizing American ships because they were short of recruits because of its low pay and terrible shipboard conditions.British sailors often deserted for american vessels...
Impressment: a legalized form of kidnapping that forced people into military service
the British warship Leopard fired on the American naval frigate Chesapeake, killing three Americans, when the ship refused boarding orders.
President Jefferson did not want to entangle the united states in the affairs of Europe
He reasoned that U.S. farm products were crucial to France and England and that a complete embargo would bring them to respect U.S. neutrality
So instead of going to war he asked congress to pass the Embargo Act of 1807, halting all trade between the United States and Europe
The Embargo wound up hurting U.S more than France or Britian this devastated the American economy. American exports plummeted from $108 million to $22 million.
Congress repealed it in March 1809, shortly before Jefferson left office.
After his second term, President Jefferson gladly retired to his estate, Monticello, in Virginia. While the embargo made Jefferson unpopular, his administration had reversed the federalist course by limiting the power of the federal government. It had also acquired a vast new territory in the west
By: Carlos Rooks, Jr
Bibliography
Jones, S. (28 D). About.com. Retrieved from http://usforeignpolicy.about.com/od/introtoforeignpolicy/a/Foreign-Policy-Under-Thomas-Jefferson.htm
Life after the presidency. (2012). Retrieved from http://millercenter.org/president/jefferson/essays/biography/6
American merchants disliked the Embargo Act of 1807. They argued that it would be years before Britain and France actually felt its effect while American trade stagnated.
Thomas Jefferson
British sailors impressing American sailors