What Action Did President Jefferson Take To Stop Britain And France From Seizing American Merchant Ships?
What Action Did President Jefferson Take To Stop Britain And France From Seizing American Merchant Ships? 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. What did Jefferson do