The Embargo Act/ Suppression of American Trade/Impressment

The Embargo effectively throttled American overseas trade

All areas of the US suffered

Financial disaster for the Americans because the British were able to export goods to America

Any trade closed in peacetime could not be reopened during the war.

France usually restricted the sugar trade to French ships during peacetime

Americans response to the Rule was the "broken voyage", by which American vessels would carry sugar from the French to American ports and then reexport it as American produce

Jefferson advocated the embargo as a mean of "peaceful coercion"

He hoped to pressure France and Britain into respecting American neutrality

The British ultimately feared Jefferson more than Napoleon, who had opened trade to British shipping