"Be it enacted... that an embargo be, and hereby is laid on all ships and vessels in the ports and places within the limits or jurisdiction of the United States... bound to any foreign port or place." — Embargo Act, December 22, 1807
The Embargo Act was most directly a response to which development?
- Acheck_circle
British and French interference with American neutral shipping
- B
Spanish closure of the port of New Orleans
- C
The Haitian Revolution's disruption of Caribbean trade
- D
Barbary pirate attacks on American merchants
Explanation
Jefferson signed the Embargo Act after British and French decrees during the Napoleonic Wars seized neutral American ships and the British impressed American sailors, including in the Chesapeake-Leopard incident.