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dec 22, 1807 - President Jefferson signs the Embargo Act, putting a halt to all trading with any country in the entire world.

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The act serves as a retaliatory measure to the increasingly coercive trade policies of the British and the French.

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dec 22, 1807
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~ 218 years ago