MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THOMAS JEFFERSON
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He instructed Secretary of State James Madison to start building a case for war.
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He immediately launched a campaign to both recover the kidnapped Americans and retaliate by kidnapping British sailors.
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He was upset by the British aggression and called for a boycott of British goods.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -What was President Jefferson’s initial reaction to the British kidnapping and impressment of American sailors? He was upset by the British aggression and called for a boycott of British goods. What did the Embargo Act of 1807 do? It prohibited American ships from trading in all foreign ports.
Detailed explanation-2: -Jefferson had two crucial diplomatic objectives in mind. First, he wanted to persuade the British to stop impressment, the practice of forcing American sailors to serve aboard British naval vessels. Second, he wanted to resolve the issue of neutral trading rights for American merchant ships.
Detailed explanation-3: -Embargo Act, (1807), U.S. Pres. Thomas Jefferson’s nonviolent resistance to British and French molestation of U.S. merchant ships carrying, or suspected of carrying, war materials and other cargoes to European belligerents during the Napoleonic Wars.
Detailed explanation-4: -Jefferson’s solution to the problems with Great Britain and France was to deny both countries American goods. In December 1807, Congress passed the Embargo Act, which stopped exports and prohibited the departure of merchant ships for foreign ports.
Detailed explanation-5: -Why was “impressment” an important issue during the Jefferson administration? The United States was being treated with disrespect on the high seas, as the British Navy was forcing American sailors off their ships and into naval service for them.