Jefferson thought that the citizens of America would cooperate from the Embargo Act with a sense of patriotism, but instead smuggling continued but mostly on the border of Canada. Jefferson had to enforce the Embargo Act, but to do that he would have to break his most cherished principles; individual liberties, and his dislikes of a strong Central Government. Thomas Jefferson then mobilized the army, as well as the navy to enforce the blockade and also declared that the Lake Champlain a region of New York along the Canadian border in a state of violent uprisings. Then thoughts of abandoning the Embargo Act started …show more content…
The Embargo Act did give the United States economic hardship, political dissension, and the evasion of law. By the failure of the Embargo Act Thomas Jefferson couldn't wait for his retirement as president as Thomas Jefferson stated "Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.'' Then in 1809 Congress replaced the Embargo Act with the Non-intercourse Act * which reopened trade with all nations except Britain and