Jefferson signed the Embargo Act.
Explanation:
- Faced with a very difficult international situation, between the United Kingdom and France, in which American commerce and its ships were particularly affected, Jefferson proposed the enactment of: an embargo law (1807), a law prohibiting any trade with any foreign country.
- The main reason for this was that, despite American neutrality, on the one hand, the British were destroying the owners of American ships that traded with the French Antilles and from there they transported goods to Europe, closing all their ports from Spain to the Elbe, and on the other hand, the French carried out controls on American ships that would eventually find themselves in an English port and destroy them.
- However, the political, and especially economic, effect of this law was substantially different from Jefferson's idea. The embargo was a major blow to both shipowners who could not trade freely, and farmers and farmers, respectively, because they were not allowed to export their products, primarily tobacco, grain and meat, to foreign markets.
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