may 1, 1810 - Macon’s Bill No. 2 (1810)
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Macon was chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee and was under pressure as the three countries leveled embargo after embargo on each other. In effect, it left the idea of economic coercion and left the US open for harder embargo strikes.https://www.ncpedia.org/macons-bill-number-two
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may 1, 1810
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~ 215 years ago