![]() ![]() It also, and more significantly, stopped all trade between America and any other country. Jefferson, still hoping to avoid war, responded with the Embargo Act of 1807, which ordered all British armed vessels out of American waters. The United States was embarrassed and humiliated that it could not protect its own ships and sailors. This practice was extremely unpopular, causing public outcry and turning American public opinion against Britain. It is estimated that over 9000 American sailors caught and forced to serve in the British Navy, taken either from their ships or in port. Sailors in port were often tricked while drunk, and taken aboard British ships, awaking to find themselves in the Navy. Men were taken from both British and American merchant ships, and Americans who had been born in England were fair game. Press gangs were a long-standing tradition of the Royal Navy. The British Navy was in great need of men during the wars with France, from the 1790s through 1815. But it neglected to address what was becoming an increasing large problem, the impressment of American sailors by the British Navy. The treaty dealt with issues left unresolved between England and the United States after the American Revolution. In 1795, President Thomas Jefferson signed the Jay Treaty, in an attempt to avoid war with England. Impressments and Embargo Led to the War of 1812Īs with any war, there were many factors that caused the War of 1812.
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