embargo

Examples of embargo in the following topics:

• The Embargo Act of 1807

  • The Embargo Act of 1807 was a general embargo enacted by the U.S.
  • Despite its unpopular nature, the Embargo Act did have some limited, unintended benefits.
  • This 1807 political cartoon satirizes the Embargo Act.
  • Here, a turtle named "Ograbme" ("Embargo" spelled backward) bites a merchant/smuggler.
  • Describe the Embargo Act of 1807 and its effects on American economic activity

• The Energy Crisis

  • U.S. support for Israel during the Yom Kippur War resulted in an embargo on oil sales to the U.S. by Arab countries.
  • With the US actions seen as initiating the oil embargo, the long-term possibility of embargo-related high oil prices, disrupted supply, and recession created a strong rift within NATO; both European countries and Japan sought to disassociate themselves from the US Middle East policy.
  • The promise of a negotiated settlement between Israel and Syria was sufficient to convince Arab oil producers to lift the embargo in March 1974.
  • The effects of the embargo were immediate.
  • The Arab embargo had a negative impact on the U.S economy, causing immediate demands to address the threats to U.S energy security.

• Origins of the War of 1812

  • He initiated a sweeping ban on trade, known as the Embargo Act of 1807.
  • The embargo, however, caused far more damage to America's economy than to Britain's.
  • The embargo was difficult to enforce and smuggling became common.
  • This lifted all embargoes but stated that if either France or Great Britain were to cease their interference with American shipping, the United States would reinstate an embargo on the other nation.
  • The failure of Jefferson's embargo led to increasing pressure from Americans to go to war with England.

• Confederate Finances

  • The Southern economy was crippled during the Civil War by a self-imposed cotton embargo, Union blockades, and inflation.
  • In 1861, Southern planters agreed to a self-imposed embargo on cotton exports.
  • However, the embargo became a loss for the Confederacy when the British did not cave in to its demands, choosing instead to import cotton from Egypt and India in 1862.
  • The self-inflicted damage resulting from the embargo was exacerbated by the blockade of Southern ports by the Union Navy, beginning in 1861.
  • Describe how the Confederacy sought to finance the war and gain international recognition through taxes and the cotton embargo

• Nixon and Foreign Policy

  • With the U.S. actions seen as initiating the oil embargo, the long-term possibility of embargo-related high oil prices—along with the disrupted supply and the resulting recession—created a strong rift within NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an alliance of countries from Europe and North America), and European countries and Japan sought to disassociate themselves from the U.S.
  • Arab oil producers had also linked the end of the embargo with successful U.S. efforts to create peace in the Middle East, which complicated the situation.
  • The promise of a negotiated settlement between Israel and Syria was sufficient to convince Arab oil producers to lift the embargo in March of 1974.
  • The effects of the embargo were immediate, and the price of oil quadrupled by 1974.
  • The Arab embargo had a negative impact on the U.S. economy, causing immediate demands to address the threats to U.S. energy security and search for new ways to develop expensive oil.

• The Balkans

  • Clinton proposed bombing Serb supply lines and lifting an embargo that prevented the shipment of military arms to the former Yugoslavia, a policy known as "lift and strike. " European nations were opposed to such a move.
  • In 1994 Clinton opposed an effort by Republicans in Congress to lift the arms embargo because the U.S. allies in Western Europe were still resistant.

• The Hartford Convention

  • The Federalists discussed their grievances with the Louisiana Purchase and the Embargo of 1807.

• Central America

  • On May 1, 1985, President Reagan announced that his administration perceived Nicaragua to be "an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States" and declared a "national emergency" and a trade embargo against Nicaragua.
  • During the Reagan administration, senior Reagan administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of weapons to Iran, which at the time was the subject of an arms embargo.

• The Mood in America

  • The 1935 act imposed a general embargo on trading in arms and war materials with all parties in a war.
  • Finally, the Neutrality Act of 1939 was passed allowing for arms trade with belligerent nations (Great Britain and France) on a cash-and-carry basis, thus in effect ending the arms embargo.

• The Growth of Cities

  • Philadelphia's maritime trade was interrupted by the Embargo Act of 1807 and the War of 1812.
  • After the war, Philadelphia's shipping industry never returned to its pre-embargo status, and New York City succeeded it as the busiest port and largest city.