USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The turtle is shown biting the man. This is representing how the Embargo Act (the turtle) greatly hurt the ship owners and merchants in the colonies (the man). Even though the Embargo Act was a federal law, it was often broken and evaded.

Detailed explanation-2: -The turtle symbolizes how the embargo and the Orders of Council are holding American businessmen back from trading at the ports.

Detailed explanation-3: -This was a political cartoon that was published in response to Thomas Jefferson’s Embargo Act of 1807(an effort to prevent the US from being drawn into the wars between Brit and France). It shows a turtle (the “ograbme") preventing a merchant from trading and stepping on the merchant’s license to trade.

Detailed explanation-4: -Jefferson’s Embargo Act outlawed trade between America and any foreign port, effectively closing in the American economy. The Embargo Act was one of the major factors leading up to the War of 1812 as it ended up increasing the hostilities that already existed between America and Britain.

Detailed explanation-5: -This political cartoon from 1807, created by Alexander Anderson, addresses the displeasure with Thomas Jefferson’s Embargo Act prevalent throughout the northern United States.