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John Adams, by McCullough
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On February 26 there was enacted an embargo on exports to Britain.†
Subsection 1.2.2 *
Desperate for food for his starving troops, Toussaint wanted the American embargo lifted from the former French colony.†
Subsection 3.10.1
He was distressed also about the bill before Congress to lift the embargo on San Domingo and commence trade with the "rebellious Negroes under Toussaint."†
Subsection 3.10.1
Determined to avoid war, Jefferson called for an embargo on all American shipping, which John Adams, like most New Englanders, saw as a catastrophe for New England, if not the nation.†
Subsection 3.11.3
But alone of the Federalists in Congress, John Quincy supported and voted for the embargo as a worthy "experiment," the same term used by Jefferson.†
Subsection 3.11.3
He thought the embargo "a cowardly measure."†
Subsection 3.11.3
He had alway sbeen against embargoes, but he would "raise no clamor" now, "being determined to support the government in whatever hands as far as I can in conscience and honor."†
Subsection 3.11.3
The embargo proved a colossal mistake for the country, and a catastrophe for New England.†
Subsection 3.11.3

Definitions:

(1) (embargo)
an official ban or restriction -- especially a government-imposed trade barrier
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)