supression of american trade/impressment and the embargo act of 1807

Royal Navy deserters would get aboard U.S ships, the British would come and get them but take U.S itizens as well if they couldn't prove it with a ertifiate of citizenship

USS Constitution and USS Chesapeake were abused by this

The chesapeake affair:

British warship attacked USS Chesapeake and forced surrender-- seized deserters

Jefferson Outraged

Prohibited vessels from leaving American ports to go to foreign ports

Advocated as a means of peacable coercion

British was not affected (ports in South America)

LOTS OF LOOPHOLES:

-allowed American ships to be blown off course into European ports

-Napoleon seized ships and claimed he was enforcing the embargo act

hurt American seamen, merchants, and farmers

-fell hardest in New England, forced diversion towards manufacturing

British regulation which established a blockade of French ports in europe

Napoleon's Response:

-The continential system: said that ships obeying Birtish regulations will be subject to seizure by France

HURT U.S TRADE!!

the french and british destroyed U.S ships

any trade closed in peacetime cannot be reopened during war

American Response:

-Broken voyange: American vessels carried sugar from the west indies to American ports and then re-exported it as american produce