The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embargo_Act_of_1807" id="mwZQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Embargo Act of 1807">Embargo Act</a>, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" id="mwZg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States Congress">U.S. Congress</a> at the urging of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" id="mwZw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="President of the United States">President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" id="mwaA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>.<sup about="#mwt68" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"}}' id="cite_ref-11" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_22#cite_note-11" id="mwaQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 11;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwag">[11]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"><cite about="#mwt65" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFOlsonMendoza2015">Olson, James Stuart; Mendoza, Abraham O. (2015). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=SZK5BwAAQBAJ" id="mwB7U" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB7Y">American Economic History: A Dictionary and Chronology</i></a>. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Press. p.<span id="mwB7c" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>188. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB7g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB7k" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9781610696975" id="mwB7o" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9781610696975"><bdi id="mwB7s">9781610696975</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt65" class="Z3988" id="mwB7w" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=American+Economic+History%3A+A+Dictionary+and+Chronology&amp;rft.place=Santa+Barbara%2C+Calif.&amp;rft.pages=188&amp;rft.pub=Greenwood+Press&amp;rft.date=2015&amp;rft.isbn=9781610696975&amp;rft.aulast=Olson&amp;rft.aufirst=James+Stuart&amp;rft.au=Mendoza%2C+Abraham+O.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DSZK5BwAAQBAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+22"></span></span>